A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

The five-part BBC series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

"Homo erectus could disperse from the Asian mainland to Java." The vast majority of Sundaland is now a shallow sea, and until now, fossils had never been found in this area.

Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 million years ago in Africa. They were the first to reach the stature of modern humans, and they had long slender legs to run on.