Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...

Faces are a huge part of human identity. Researchers have found multiple human remains across decades, which showcase how ...

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

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It’s a new weekend in Destiny 2, which means Xur is back once again, with the shady vendor waiting to sell you Exotics galore and more from his ever-changing stock – as he does each week. As ...

But these ancestral Simpsons are undeniably of another epoch, more Homo erectus than modern man. And it seems that the differences sit uneasily with the show’s creators. The shorts have never ...

The international community has a golden opportunity to start reining in the escalating, mostly ignored global burden of chronic kidney disease.

When Earth's magnetic North Pole shifted over Europe about 41,000 years ago, solar radiation likely spelt doom for Neanderthals. However, Homo Sapiens managed to survive and a paper has revealed how.

Homo naledi, an extinct relative of modern humans whose brain was one-third the size of ours, buried their dead and engraved cave walls about 250,000 years ago, according to new research.