Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula is a real puzzle.

Close your eyes and picture a Neanderthal. You're probably imagining heavy browridges, a big, broad nose, perhaps a jutting midface. If so, you're right on, though those are only the most obvious ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

A piece of skull found in a cave in Greece suggests our human ancestors left Africa far earlier than anthropologists thought. A study published today in the journal Nature revealed that the skull ...