What Makes This 300,000-Year-Old Skull So Special? It Doesn’t Belong to Any Known Human Species Story by Juliette Dubois • 1w ...

These human ancestors weren’t as lonely as experts thought Researchers uncovered Homo erectus skull fragments within 176.5 million cubic feet of sand. Andrew Paul May 16, 2025 2:01 PM EDT ...

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 ...

The Homo affinis erectus fragment was discovered in 2022 and is between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old.

Researchers reassessed the skull and found resemblances to Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens, but it didn’t exactly fit into any of these species.

The skull is believed to be the most intact Homo erectus specimen of its age found in inland Eurasia. It was discovered on May 18 at an early Paleolithic period site in central China's Hubei ...

Many scholars think that H. georgicus is in fact just an early iteration of H. erectus – which emerged in Africa some 1.9 million years ago before spreading across the globe – while others are ...

Ancient skull may have been half human, half Neanderthal child CT scans hint at hybridization, but it will take extracting and analyzing a DNA sample to be certain.

But the Homo erectus skull, dating back 1.55 million years, was slightly older than the Homo habilis jawbone, which was found to be 1.44 million years old, the scientists said. "CHANGED STORY" ...

A fossil skull from a site called Gawis in Ethiopia is apparently intermediate in form between Homo erectus and our own species, Homo sapiens. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting ...