Academics have said they have found "the earliest human face of western Europe", after fragments of a skull were found at the Spanish archaeological cave site of Sima del Elefante. The skull of the ...

A gay man was beaten this past Tuesday night in the street in Amsterdam, and police believe that the incident was motivated by bias. The NL Times reports that two men yelled at their alleged ...

Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man ... real taste of public adulation with the discovery of a little skull of an 18-million-year-old ape called Proconsul.

In 2003, researchers excavating a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores made an extraordinary discovery: the 18,000-year-old bones of a woman whose skull was less than one-third ...