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

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

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

The Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Scientists in Spain have excavated fossilized facial bones that may be from a previously unknown species of the human family. The bones are roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old, according to ...

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin, right, ...

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