The human ancestor Homo erectus emerged about two million years ago, and was thought to have all but disappeared by about 300,000 years ago. But now, an international team of scientists has uncovered ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

A study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features ...

An international team of researchers in South Africa has discovered that our ancestor Homo erectus is older than we thought. An excavation at Drimolen near Johannesburg uncovered the remains of a ...

Scientists believe they have resolved a controversy over how long Homo erectus inhabited the Indonesian island of Java before dying out. New evidence -- which was published Wednesday in the journal ...

Between 108,000 and 117,000 years ago, the first humans to walk upright took their last stand. Researchers have discovered the youngest fossils of Homo erectus in Central Java, Indonesia, an ancient ...

Researchers at the Hexian hominid site in He county, Ma'anshan City, East China's Anhui Province, have recently made a major ...

The Gona site in Afar, Ethiopia is a hotbed of anthropological discovery. It is also, quite literally, hot. But the inhospitable climate, paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw tells Inverse, is likely why ...

If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape might be ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Primitive in all the wrong ways, "National Lampoon's Homo Erectus" sets comedy back a good 2 million years, reminding auds of simpler times when a club to the head or a spear to the crotch was all it ...