A handful of ancient teeth from China are giving scientists an unusual look at one of the hardest chapters in human evolution ...

Historic sequencing feat: Scientists decoded proteins from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth, marking the first successful molecular analysis of this ancient human ancestor. Unexpected genetic links ...

Several Homo erectus skulls were recently identified as the youngest known fossils of the species, some 108,000 to 117,000 years old. These fossil replicas are housed at the University of Iowa. Tim ...

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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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have uncovered the skulls of two individuals belonging to ...

An unusual skullcap and thousands of clues have created a southern twist to the story of human ancestors, in research published in Science on 3 April. The rolling hills northwest of Johannesburg are ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The last known members of the Homo erectus species were killed in a ...

Imagine your child asked you, “When did grandma die?” and you could only respond, “It was probably a while ago, but it could have been quite recently.” Most likely your child would be unsatisfied with ...

In the winter of 2015, Jesse Martin and Angeline Leece were extracting what they thought were baboon remains from a piece of rock. The two students at La Trobe University in Australia were part of an ...

Scientists studying the roots of humanity’s family tree have found several branches entangled in and around a South African cave. Two million years ago, three different early humans—Australopithecus, ...