The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

The parts of the skeleton – a skull cap, molar and thigh bone – were the first known specimens of Homo erectus ...

Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

Participate in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more this month at the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Tens of thousands of years ago, ancient humans domesticated the ancestors of gray ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

Food processing has been a part of human adaptation since deep in the past. The softening and breaking down of food left its testimony on the human body. For example, the massive teeth of our early ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern ...