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 ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The findings suggest ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...

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