The mineralized bones are the earliest human fossil remains found so far in Western Europe. However, it wasn’t immediately ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

In a study published in The Journal of Human Evolution, it is revealed that Paranthropus robustus, a species of prehistoric human, were bipedal and walked upright much like we do today. This finding ...

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

Notwithstanding their immeasurable human impact, this contact altered ... and reproduced during this key period of prehistory. Each individual’s genetic code is transcribed in the sequence ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...

The city of Marbella (Málaga, Spain) has witnessed an archaeological discovery that could rewrite the history of prehistoric ...

Researchers have uncovered ancient facial bones in a cave in northern Spain that may belong to an unknown prehistoric early human population, challenging established theories regarding when human ...

The mineralized bones are the earliest human fossil remains found so far in Western Europe. However, it wasn’t immediately obvious which species of prehistoric human the team had found ...

Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA ...