A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Discover the groundbreaking new research that uncovers the crucial factor that allowed humans to successfully leave Africa 50,000 years ago.

Experts say this is the first time evidence of life in the lost world has been seen. These lost lands were called Sundaland and were once connected to Southeast Asia in a vast tropical plain. Some of ...

Homo erectus, emerging over 2 million years ago, was the first human species to migrate out of Africa and establish populations across Asia, including Java. They survived on the island until ...

When sea levels rose, the land bridges between the islands of Sundaland were submerged, but this dredging has given us an unprecedented window into the life of Homo erectus in Indonesia.

Archaeologists working in Southeast Asia recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor, according to new studies.

A remarkable discovery of Homo erectus remains alongside fossils of various animals in the submerged region of Sundaland sheds new light on the life and environment of early humans about 140,000 years ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...

Science Archaeology 1.4-million-year-old bones deepen mystery of who reached Europe first 'Pink' may have been a member of the Homo erectus family. By Andrew Paul Published Mar 12, 2025 12:00 PM EDT ...

H. erectus, our earliest ancestors to cross Asia, once roamed across this giant landmass. An illustration shows what Homo erectus, one of our oldest ancestors who lived 110,000 to 1.9 million ...

Prior to this, species such as Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens lived for around 2.5 million years from hunting and gathering - from what nature provided.