Prof Ciochon thinks this could mark the exact point of extinction of Homo erectus on the island. "Homo sapiens is the only hominin species that lives in a tropical forest," he explained.

It is believed that a remote Indonesian island was once home to an ancient human species that could still be alive today.

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

According to the authors, the Neanderthals may have also suffered from having to compete for resources with H. sapiens. Homo erectus thrived for an estimated 1.5 million years before their extinction.

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

On Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the ...

Additionally, the differing fates of these two species provoke curiosity: Homo erectus survived nearly a million years beyond this period, while Paranthropus boisei went extinct much earlier. This ...

"This study clarifies a hominin fossil record that has tended to include anything that cannot easily be assigned to Homo erectus ... juluensis and Denisovans, an extinct species of hominins.

They date back to around 300,000 years ago – a period between archaic Homo erectus and modern Homo ... also been unearthed this year, including extinct animals such as ancient pandas and ...