Reanalysis of an infant jawbone discovered in Ethiopia confirms Homo erectus lived in the highlands 2 million years ago.

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

For years, scientists believed that Homo erectus was the first human species to venture out of Africa around 1.8 million ...

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 ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to hominins who probably lived very close in time to our species’ last common ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.