These individuals are considered to be a key link between earlier species like Homo erectus and later species like Neanderthals and modern humans. The bones found in Sima de los Huesos are ...

Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced thediscovery of a new fossil from the ...

Known as ATE7-1, the new fossil consists of a partial face belonging to an ancient hominin, a biological classification that includes living humans and our closest extinct relatives, such as ...

Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce. On March 12, researchers announced the discovery of a new fossil from the ...

Fossils from the era point to two species, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, that inhabited Africa and other regions. Either could be candidates for the ancestral groups identified in the study.

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral ...

Based on the fossil record, we know that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived in Africa (and beyond) during the period in question, making them possible candidates for these ...

So who were our mysterious human ancestors? Fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in Africa and other regions during this period ...

When a fragment of a skull emerged from a cave in northern Spain, archaeologist Rosa Huguet was almost certain it came from a human ancestor. What she didn’t know at the time of the excavation ...

Original fossil (ATE7-1) alongside the mirrored right side by means of virtual 3D imaging techniques of the face of a hominin assigned to Homo aff. erectus found in level the TE7 of Sima del Elefante ...

Instead, he resembles Homo erectus, a far more ancient human species which emerged in Africa two million years ago and was the first to walk on two legs like a modern human. The researchers ...