Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

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

Explore the remarkable survival strategies of Homo erectus in extreme desert conditions. Discover how they thrived in harsh ...

Romania is making strides in the archaeological world after new evidence confirmed the presence of ancient hominins in the ...

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

Recent research has revealed that early human ancestors, specifically Homo erectus, thrived in extreme desert conditions over ...

The capacity might explain how Homo erectus conquered Eurasia, but deepens the mystery about what took our own species so ...

New evidence reveals Homo erectus mastered survival in Tanzania’s ancient deserts, proving they were adaptable generalists long before modern humans emerged. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Image ...

They also had bigger brains than earlier species, though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going ...

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and ...