antecessor' is the Homo antecessor, an extinct species of early human known to have inhabited a set of caves in Atapuerca, northern Spain. Another species, known as Homo erectus, was the first ...

Yousuke Kaifu Paleoanthropologists have long debated whether the bone came from a Homo erectus, an archaic Homo sapiens, or a Denisovan. The bone, known scientifically as Penghu 1, was netted by ...

At age 12, she helped her parents at the KFRP excavate the fossil remains of the Turkana Boy — the most complete Homo erectus skeleton from 1.5 million years ago. Leakey also found her first ...

The geo picks were out almost as soon as the Homo naledi fossils were unearthed in the ... smaller version of the long-known hominin Homo erectus. By creating a new branch of the Homo tree ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

(Sadly ‘homo erectus’ had already been taken.) These men are rejecting normal dating, sex and doing all the things dudes in their teens, 20s and 30s have been doing since the invention of the ...

“He loved to be recognized, and to stimulate people by talking about what he’d done and who he was,” his son Richard, 57, himself an expert fossil ... now called Homo erectus, or erect ...

The European Union plans to outline steps to phase out Russian fossil fuels in early May ... Publication of the road map, originally due earlier this year, was delayed as the EU weighed the ...

Drawing on comparative developmental biology, classical embryological studies, and data from the arthropod fossil record, the study identifies three ancestral developmental zones from which all ...

A newly discovered exceptional fossil site in North America gives a new look into marine communities from the Early Jurassic. All other known sites from that time period are in Europe. Disclaimer ...