Homo erectus | Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? The Ancients host Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor John Mcnabb at the University of Southampton to discuss the extinct ...

Facial reconstructions of the prehistoric humans Homo floresiensis (left), Homo erectus (middle) and a Neanderthal (right) that are part of an upcoming five-part documentary series called "Human." ...

A Massive Underwater Fossil Find Includes Remains From Ancient Human Ancestors More than 6,000 animal fossils were found in Indonesia, and two of them belong to Homo erectus ...

Trending News: Once, Earth was home to diverse human species, not just Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence reveals at least 21 early human species, including Neanderthals ...

Indeed, it could be said that our ability to recognise our eventual demise and the grief that comes with losing those close to us are core elements of what it means to be human.

Species Spotlight Homo erectus was the first human to walk like people today. They made good use of this skill – they were the first humans to leave Africa.

The researchers then compared both sets of modern skulls with digital models of eight skulls from ancient Homo sapiens, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis.

A model of a Homo erectus human from BBC series with Ella Al-Shamahi Ella said the 3D models were “the most scientifically accurate” collection of human species ever shown on television.

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the earliest known Homo sapiens.

Although only one species of hominin (a tribe of the subfamily Homininae) exists on the planet today—good ole Homo sapiens —the human family, throughout more geologically-recent Earth history ...