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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

A team of researchers from Japan, Indonesia and Germany has found evidence that suggests Homo erectus arrived on the island of Java approximately 300,000 years later than thought. In their paper ...

Old tools and bones can reveal a lot about our ancestors. But when it comes to what was going on inside their bodies – such as what they ate and how healthy they were – nothing can really beat a ...

The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were discovered ...