Researchers dated a Homo erectus skull in South Africa to 2 million years ago — the oldest known H. erectus fossil on Earth.

The skull of an ancient toddler from a species known as Homo erectus has been found in South Africa The fossil is dated to between 2.04 million and 1.95 million years old, pushing back the age of ...

The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the early human relative emerged between 100,000 and 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Dubbed DNH 134, the fossil was eventually determined to belong to Homo erectus, and was found to be between 2.04 and 1.95 million years old.

Learn more about how to make sense of Asia's confusing hominin fossil record of Homo juluensis, and why scientists proposed a ...

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 fossil is the strongest evidence yet that the species called Homo erectus--a tool-making, nomadic ancestor of humanity that was the first creature to master fire--was a single species ranging ...

Marcia Ponce de Léon, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Zürich in Switzerland who was not involved in the new study, agrees that “it is reasonable to call the new fossil Homo erectus ...

New hominin remains and revised context from the earliest Homo erectus locality in East Turkana, Kenya. Nature Communications, 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22208-x ...

The magnitude of skull diversity at Dmanisi indicates that African Homo fossils dating to shortly before and after 1.8 million years ago can be folded into a single, intercontinental H. erectus ...

The skull appears similar to those found in Asia, suggesting that the populations were in fact one species. Fossils of H. erectus were discovered in Java in the 1800s.