Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Skull in China That Could Belong to the Homo Erectus Species The skull could belong to a human that lived between 1.1 million and 800,000 years ago. By Jace Dela Cruz ...

The skull has similar facial features to those of early modern humans. The skull could potentially belong to a direct human ancestor called Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and 750,000 years ago.

The skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, was discovered over 140,000 years after it was first buried, preserved beneath layers of silt and sand in the Madura Strait between the ...

Homo erectus was both widespread and long-lived. Remains have been found in eastern Africa, eastern Asia and possibly Europe, and they span a period from 1.9 million to 250,000 years ago.

The skull, found in China in 2019, ... which scientists think began to branch away from another human ancestor known as Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and 750,000 years ago. ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a ...

The skull was found in May, but it took experts until Dec. 3 to safely and completely excavate it. Previously, two damaged ancient homo erectus skulls were found at the site in 1989 and 1990, the ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how ...

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies. The bones were part of a cache of ...

Farmers Dug Up a Skull Unlike Any Human Ancestor Ryan Somma from Occoquan, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

The skull (left) of Homo floresiensis is displayed next to a modern human's skull at a news conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2004, shortly after the hobbit's discovery was made public.