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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 ...

Homo erectus is a key ancestor of modern humans. Emerging at least two million years ago, they were the first to develop human-like proportions and the first to migrate out of Africa, eventually ...

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." ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...

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 bones found in Sima de los Huesos are primarily those of Homo heidelbergensis, though other animal remains were also found within the cave: the remains of at least 28 individuals, with some ...

The oldest human ancestor found anywhere in Europe is Homo georgicus. Scientists found 1.8 million-year-old H. georgicus fossils in Georgia, which suggests early humans settled Eurasia from east ...

It was previously thought Homo erectus disappeared some 400,000 years ago. However, this date has been dramatically reduced, with more recent estimates suggesting they went extinct just 140,000 ...

Identification of Homo erectus species The excavation team, led by paleoanthropologist Rosa Huguet of the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, discovered the fossil in 2022 ...

Homo erectus, which lived up until at least 250,000 years ago, was the first human species with body proportions like us modern humans (Homo sapiens) and walked upright.

Our species Homo sapiens did not appear until roughly 300,000 years ago in Africa, later migrating worldwide, including into Europe. Homo erectus first appeared in Africa roughly 1.9 million years ...