Lost Civilisation Underwater? 140,000-Year-Old Homo Erectus Skull May Hold The Key To Secret The site could be the first physical evidence of the lost landmass known as Sundaland, which submerged ...

This placed the valley fill and fossils between about 162,000 and 119,000 years ago, firmly within the late Middle Pleistocene epoch. The two Homo erectus skull fragments, a frontal and a parietal ...

A recent discovery stemming from a massive construction project reveals evidence of a previously unknown group of Homo erectus that lived off the coast of Java, Indonesia, 140,000 years ago.

Homo erectus, emerging over 2 million years ago, was the first human species to migrate out of Africa and establish populations across Asia, including Java. They survived on the island until ...

Homo erectus may have copied this practice from these populations,” Berghuis said. “This suggests there may have been contact between these hominin groups, or even genetic exchange." ...

After leaving Africa nearly 2 million years ago, H. erectus trekked all the way through Asia and eventually hit the Southeast Asian islands closer to 1.5 million years ago. Fast-forward to the late ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging previous beliefs about early human ecological limitations.

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 ...

There is no definite evidence of Homo erectus, but a probable sister species, Homo antecessor, lived in Atapuerca, northern Spain, perhaps as long ago as 1.4 million years.