Archaeologists Find 140,000-Year-Old Bones Belonging to Ancient Humans

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast Asia, Live Science reported, citing four separate studies published last week in the journal Quaternary Environments and Human.

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