For years, the Java Sea looked like a gap in the record. Some of the most important Homo erectus fossils ever found came from nearby Java, but the shallow seabed between the islands seemed to hold ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is the first time fossils of this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There are a lot of firsts associated with Homo erectus," Karen Baab, a biological anthropologist at Midwestern University in ...

View post: Divisive Oscar-Winning Music Biopic Is Coming to Netflix in April Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in ...

Bones from an extinct human ancestor have been recovered from the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown Homo erectus population in Southeast Asia that may have interacted with more modern humans, ...

A recent discovery stemming from a massive construction project reveals evidence of a previously unknown group of Homo erectus that lived off the coast of Java, Indonesia, 140,000 years ago. Skull ...