Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

New research has revealed that Homo erectus in Java persisted far longer than previously believed, possibly overlapping with early Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence suggests that the species survived ...

Homo erectus was also the most successful of all human species, at least so far. They survived for a staggering period of time, nearly two million years, before fading out about 110,000 years ago ...

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 ...

The earliest evidence of cooking has been found at an archaeological site in what’s now Israel. The meal that featured a 6.5-foot-long fish occurred 780,000 years ago.

The researchers believe Homo erectus became isolated on the island around 1 million years ago and underwent a dramatic reduction in body size during a period of around 300,000 years.

Before now, the earliest evidence of cooked food was around 170,000 years ago, with early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using fire to cook vegetables and meat. First cooking fires predate Homo sapiens ...

Homo erectus is believed to have evolved about 2 million years ago in Africa. ... ‘This is a good tool. I should bring it with me and be ready if we find food,’” said Paul Durkin, ...

Within a few hundred thousand years of the encounter, the Paranthropus boisei would be extinct for reasons that are still unknown. By contrast, the Homo erectus species persisted for another ...

The earliest evidence of cooking has been found at an archaeological site in what’s now Israel. The meal that featured a 6.5-foot-long fish occurred 780,000 years ago.