A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

More than 1.2 million years ago, our ancestors Homo erectus developed the tools and intellectual capacity to survive in very ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought ...

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.

It is believed that a remote Indonesian island was once home to an ancient human species that could still be alive today.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...