Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by transmitting malaria ...

Researchers have uncovered the skulls of two individuals belonging to the species Homo erectus—one of our ancient ancestors—alongside various types of stone tool of differing complexity at a site in ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

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 ...

Homo erectus emerged around 2 million years ago and survived until roughly 117,000 to 108,000 years ago, making it one of the ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

In the early 1930s, Dutch anthropologists found a giant bed of bones hidden above the banks of the Solo River on the Indonesian island of Java. Buried in the river mud in an area called Ngandong were ...

Homo erectus | Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? The Ancients host Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor ...

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 ...

April 3 (UPI) --Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, ...