Homo erectus | Why Did the Most Successful Early Human Go Extinct? The Ancients host Tristan Hughes sits down with Professor John Mcnabb at the University of Southampton to discuss the extinct species ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and ultimately roaming the planet for almost 2 million years. But with scarce genetic ...

A groundbreaking analysis of ancient teeth is offering scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the interactions between early human relatives, hundreds of thousands of years ago, and their enduring ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

A handful of ancient teeth from China are giving scientists an unusual look at one of the hardest chapters in human evolution to read. For decades, Homo erectus has stood at the center of that mystery ...

Homo habilis sits near the base of the Homo genus, though its exact classification and relationship to Homo erectus remain debated. Fossils from Olduvai Gorge and other East African sites show a small ...