Old Skull of ‘Maba’ Continues to Puzzle Scientists as It Does Not Match Any Human Species. Experts have been at work for ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Archaeologists have spent the past 60 years trying to understand where the skull fits in human evolution, and it seems there ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Fossils tell part of this story. One Homo erectus skull from 1.8 million years ago was toothless, implying its owner survived only with help from others. A Neanderthal man known as Shanidar 1 ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is the first time fossils of this ...

When sea levels rose, the land bridges between the islands of Sundaland were submerged, but this dredging has given us an unprecedented window into the life of Homo erectus in Indonesia.

He and his team later determined that the fragment belonged to an adult or adolescent Homo erectus. Another skull fragment was found, and although it was found to belong to an adolescent member of ...

Related: Ancient quarries in Israel reveal where Homo erectus hunted and butchered elephants H. erectus is an important part of our evolutionary history. Emerging at least 2 million years ago, it ...

Sand dredging off the coast of Java has recovered more than 6,000 bones, including two fragments of skulls of the early humans Homo erectus ... However, two H. erectus skull fragments found ...