Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

Homo erectus is associated with a number of firsts in its 2 million years of existence, including being the first hominin to ...

The team discovered a lower jawbone around 62 miles southwest of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Further examinations revealed the jawbone to be 1.8 million years old. The finding is valuable, as these ...

In addition to the ancient jawbone, scientists uncovered fossils from a sabre-toothed tiger, wolf, elephant and giraffe along with tools made of stone ...

A new fossil find in the Republic of Georgia is expanding our understanding of the earliest humans to leave Africa.

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast Asia, Live Science reported, citing four separate studies published last ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

Dredging operations off the coast of Java, Indonesia, unearthed a treasure trove of thousands of animal fossils, including those of a previously unknown Homo erectus population. A team of scientists ...

Human Evolution Never-before-seen cousin of Lucy might have lived at the same site as the oldest known human species, new study suggests Human Evolution 'It makes no sense to say there was only one ...

Dental remains dating back 300,000 years, which were discovered at a well-known Chinese archaeological site, have revealed surprising information about human breeding practices, according to a new ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.