Dr. Durkin and his colleagues set out to determine exactly what kind of environment Homo erectus lived in a million years ago ...

Prof Ciochon thinks this could mark the exact point of extinction of Homo erectus on the island. "Homo sapiens is the only hominin species that lives in a tropical forest," he explained.

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

Several hominin species made their home at Koobi Fora over the span of about 3 million years, including two types of australopithecines and four members of the Homo genus. But because the fossil ...

According to the authors, the Neanderthals may have also suffered from having to compete for resources with H. sapiens. Homo erectus thrived for an estimated 1.5 million years before their extinction.

and the rate of decline did not change following the appearance of Homo erectus, one of the earliest human ancestors that could have contributed to the extinctions. "This extinction process kicks ...

Additionally, the differing fates of these two species provoke curiosity: Homo erectus survived nearly a million years beyond this period, while Paranthropus boisei went extinct much earlier. This ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same ...