Composed of several broken fragments and parts of two teeth, the remains found at Sima del Elefante are believed to be the oldest example of human facial bones found in Western Europe. The ...

The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago, according to a new study ...

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known human remains in Western Europe, estimated between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old, in Spain’s Atapuerca region. The fossilized facial bones ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the Homo antecessor. Experts have found Homo antecessor remains that are around 850,000 years old. The oldest human ancestor found ...

The remains, which are the oldest facial bones ever discovered in ... director of the National Center for Research on Human Evolution and the study’s co-author. Martinón and her colleagues ...

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

The human remains and associated stone tools ... “These finds currently represent the oldest association of probable early members of the Homo sapiens lineage and Middle Stone Age tools.

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ancient human nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain's Iberian Peninsula ...