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

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

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, ...

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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 fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.

The bone remains, including parts of the left cheek and upper jaw, belong to an extinct human species that lived between 1.1 ...

This means it bears some similarities to the face of Homo erectus -- but not enough that the scientists could confirm that Pink was a member of this important human ancestor. So the scientists ...