The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

This skull, attributed to Homo habilis ... These skulls belong to Homo erectus, but they are much smaller than typical Homo erectus fossils, leading scientists to classify them as a subspecies ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce.

explained that the skull discovered three years ago has a more prominent facial appearance than Homo antecessor, something that makes it more similar to Homo erectus. Similarly, the team of ...

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.

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from ... However, Martinón-Torres said the morphology of the skull fossil found in 2022 didn’t match up with ...

“They may get to a new location and then die out,” said Potts, who had no role in the study. The partial skull bears many ...