Anthropologists solved a 90-year mystery about Homo erectus fossils after finding that 12 skulls are at least 107,000 years old.

Humans aren’t the only animals with numerical awareness, although we are alone in our ability to perform symbolic ...

Homo erectus has been credited with the longest reign of any of the species in the Homo genus, it is actually quite insane how long they were around. They emerged around 2 million years ago and ...

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.

On top of Homo sapiens, at least eight other species of our genus have walked Earth: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo ...

Researchers uncovered Homo erectus skull fragments within 176.5 million cubic feet of sand. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Homo erectus was also the most successful of all human species, at least so far. They survived for a staggering period of time, nearly two million years, before fading out about 110,000 years ago ...

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 ...

The species’ name can be shortened to Homo aff. erectus.In taxonomy, “aff.” comes from the Latin affinis, meaning “related to,” and it’s often used to indicate a species closely ...

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.

Homo erectus last appeared in the fossil record a little over 100,000 years ago. “Lots of people have thought they are as good of a candidate as there is to be a direct ancestor of ours ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes mysterious groups like the Denisovans—ancient human relatives whose histories ...