In the nearly 2 million years that they were roaming this planet, Homo erectus laid the groundwork for all other human species that came after it, they were the first to travel continents ...

Homo erectus is arguably one of the most significant ... However, most specimens show signs of a human-like body, like elongated legs and shorter arms in comparison to its torso.

Fragments of a human skull may reveal the secrets of an ancient land, ruled by venomous Komodo dragons. The 140-000-year-old bone fragments were discovered buried in a now-submerged land in Indonesia.

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child ...

Exactly whose idea it was to set off on this world tour is difficult to say, yet Homo erectus is generally seen ... is probably made up of two different human species, one of which they designate ...

For years, archeologists assumed the ancient Homo erectus population that lived on ... it had previously been documented in more modern human species who lived on the Asian mainland.

A recent study published in the journal L’anthropologie provides new data on one of the most fascinating mysteries of human ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

One of our direct human ancestors is older than we thought. The Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa has yielded its first Homo erectus fossil, and the oldest found anywhere.

While both are human relatives, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei featured very different traits, and their fates within the human evolutionary tree took starkly different routes. Homo erectus ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis ... that cannot easily be assigned to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens ...