Fragments of a skull found in Spain reveal that human ancestors arrived ... But the new bones are hundreds of thousands of years older and shaped differently, suggesting that Homo erectus — an ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient human fossils have been dis ...

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

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.

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

The story about our ancestors can change at any moment thanks to the tireless work of researchers. In 2022, a team of experts unearthed fragments of a human skull in the Sima del E ...

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

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.