The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

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

Spanish researchers have found the remains of a facial fragment in Atapuerca, in northern Spain, which has been identified as the oldest known face ... human mandible dated at about 1.2 million years ...

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

Scientists have unearthed facial bones that may belong to a previously unknown human species. The bones, nicknamed "Pink," ...

Beyond the numbers, Homo antecessor also had a surprisingly modern-looking face ... time it was a human jawbone, found in ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

When a fragment of a skull emerged from a cave in northern Spain, archaeologist Rosa Huguet was almost certain it came from a human ancestor. What she didn’t know at the time of the excavation ...