Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...

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

Our early human ancestors might have been more adaptable than previously thought: New research suggests Homo erectus was able ...

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

This finding had challenged the long-held belief that Homo sapiens were the first humans to adapt to such inhospitable terrains.

Explore the remarkable survival strategies of Homo erectus in extreme desert conditions. Discover how they thrived in harsh ...

The capacity might explain how Homo erectus conquered Eurasia, but deepens the mystery about what took our own species so ...