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

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...

Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

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.

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

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but ...

Scientists discovered ancient facial fossils in Spain that may represent a new human species, reshaping early European ...