A site dredged from the seabed in Indonesia is bringing Homo erectus back into focus, revealing how these early humans lived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

Rising seas erased this prehistoric human world from history—until ocean dredgers recently discovered it.

Prehistoric humans even older than the Neanderthals deliberately produced stone tools with fossils and geodes at their center ...

The bones were part of a cache of more than 6,000 recovered fossils. Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast ...

A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness and capabilities may have been going underestimated - Copyright AFP SAUL LOEB A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness ...

Researchers say the remains are “a mosaic of primitive and derived traits never seen before.” Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological ...

Thu, March 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC Debates about how soon the species trekked as far as East Asia, however, have persisted. Now, though, skulls that were unearthed decades ago may finally be presenting ...

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...