Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them the oldest known hominin remains in eastern Asia. The new findings overturn ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A 1.8 million-year-old jaw has been discovered in Orozmani, Georgia, reigniting research into the very first humans to leave Africa. This bone fragment could represent one of the oldest traces of Homo ...

Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than commonly believed ...

Scientists on a dig in Georgia have discovered what they believe to be a 1.8-million-year-old Homo erectus jawbone Archeologists made the discovery during an excavation at a site called Orozmani In ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.

At least 50,000 years ago, an extinct human species lived on what is now the island of Luzon, researchers reported Wednesday. It’s possible that Homo luzonensis, as they’re calling the species, stood ...