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

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday.

Rather, the facial fragments belong to Homo affinis erectus—and the finding, reported today in Nature, indicates that the human population in Europe turned over at the end of the Early Pleistocene.

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

While experts haven’t confirmed Pink’s exact hominin species just yet, they may belong to our famous evolutionary relative, Homo erectus. Hominins began migrating into Eurasia at least 1.8 ...

Homo Erectus This species, until recently known by a multiplicity of other names, was probably the immediate predecessor of modern man. It now seems possible that the transition took place some ...

The hapless Ishbo, a philosophical caveman, yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones, and raw meat. Determined to single-handedly, advance the human race, Ishbo continually irritates his ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

The Sima del Elefante site, in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain), has once again been the scene of an extraordinary discovery. A team of researchers has identified a human facial fragment dated ...