In 1958, in a narrow trench of an eroded limestone cave near Maba Village in Shaoguan City, China, local farmers were digging up bat guano for fertilizer when they came across something unusual.

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

Fragments of a human skull may reveal the secrets of an ancient land, ruled by venomous Komodo dragons. The 140-000-year-old bone fragments were discovered buried in a now-submerged land in Indonesia.

The Juluren show a blend of traits seen in Neanderthals but not in Denisovans, Homo erectus, or modern humans. Their facial structures and jaws tell a complex and surprising story. For years ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis ... This begins with iconic words being spoken by the ancient human species Homo erectus around 1.6 million years ago. As these types of words were transmitted ...

and found that its brow ridge resembled that of Neanderthals and other ancient human species. He and his team later determined that the fragment belonged to an adult or adolescent Homo erectus.

Neanderthals could talk ... This begins with iconic words being spoken by the ancient human species Homo erectus around 1.6 million years ago. As these types of words were transmitted from ...