Compared with modern humans (Homo sapiens), who have been around for the past 300,000 years, Homo erectus, or "upright human," had a long reign. The ancient human species lived from 2 million years ...

Homo erectus was the longest-living human species in history, thriving for nearly 2 million years. From Africa to Asia, they mastered fire, built shelters, and crafted stone tools that transformed ...

Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.

Four teeth found in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China have scientists scratching their heads. In 1972 and 1983, researchers extracted the roughly 200,000-year-old teeth from the silty ...

During the Japanese occupation of China in 1933, a man working on a bridge in the city of Harbin in the northeastern part of the country discovered a skull and immediately hid it from his Japanese ...