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

The internal structures of Maba 1 show a combination of morphological features found in various species,” scientists stated ...

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

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 ...

The findings come from sand dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, where over 6,000 bones were recovered, including fragments of Homo erectus skulls. This discovery challenges previous ...

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 ...