Details of the result are described in the journal Nature. In the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were found in a bone bed 20m above the Solo River at Ngandong in central ...

The skull, which they found in South Africa, is of the species Paranthropus robustus, a cousin species to our predecessors, ...

The skull has facial features that are similar to early modern humans, which scientists think began to branch away from another human ancestor known as Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and ...

The skull which is more primitive than those of modern humans, but more advanced than Homo erectus, was considered to be around 500,000 years old based on its anatomy. It is considered by many ...

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

Based on the skull features, the skulls were classified as belonging to Homo erectus, specifically to "Yunxian Homo erectus." In 2022, a third ancient human skull fossil was found at the same ...