Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ...

H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going extinct around 100,000 years ago.It was one of the first early human species to migrate out of Africa, traveling to distant ...

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Credit: María D. Guillén / ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...