Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Homo erectus, which many believe was an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens, is thought to have died out 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Archaeologist Harold Berghuis of Leiden University led the team that conducted the research, finding two Homo erectus skull fragments between 162,000 and 119,000 years old. These fossils were ...

The small-bodied hominin, named Homo luzonensis, lived on the island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago. The hominin—identified from a total of seven teeth and six small bones—hosts ...

This is a 1.8 million-year-old skull of Homo erectus found in the country of Georgia. Homo erectus was a close relative of our species, which is why their skulls look similar.

Jeff Passan of ESPN.com wrote his early 2025 MLB trade deadline preview. He put the Cincinnati Reds in the "tweeners" category, which means they are caught in between buying and seliing at the ...

A San Diego Police cruiser. (FILE photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) A 45-year-old man was hospitalized Saturday with a skull fracture after he crashed a Honda Grom motorcycle in the Encanto ...

Popular snacks such as Skittles, M&M’s and Doritos, and soft drinks like Mountain Dew could soon be labeled “not recommended for human consumption” if lawmakers in Texas have their way.

“These papers are going a step too far, I think,” he says. “They redefine the concept of Homo sapiens by creating this category of ‘early modern humans’ that I’ve never seen before.” ...

The species may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 100,000 years, and they’re believed to be the precursor to the Neanderthal, the skull of which is seen above.