A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A 1.5-million-year-old skull suggests Homo erectus evolved through a messy transition, with multiple human forms coexisting.

The reconstruction was produced by an international research team led by Dr Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at Midwestern ...

The Netherlands has returned four pieces from a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap which ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

In the river terraces of central China’s Hubei Province, a fossilized skull once dismissed as too crushed for meaningful analysis is now reigniting one of paleoanthropology’s most contentious debates.

A virtual reconstruction of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus skull from Ethiopia uncovers primitive facial features and ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Ministry of Culture has received the repatriated collection of ancient human Homo erectus ...

(CNN) — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...