A group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The discovery was made in Spain.

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe. The team did so for the first time in 1994,

Some of the eldest bones ever discovered could reconstruct our understanding of mankind's history – the find 'introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution in Europe'