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

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in Europe.

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

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

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

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

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

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

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

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

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