The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

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 ...

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

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, but gradually ... such as a partial skull and a lower jaw, along with stone tools.