Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

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 ...

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

uncovering evidence in Morocco of the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens, providing crucial insights into the origins of our species. The human remains and associated stone tools, discovered ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and systematically crafted tools from bone much earlier than previously ...

Here, we take a closer look at five of the oldest fossils ... known as Homo erectus georgicus. The Dmanisi skulls are significant because they challenge previous ideas about early human ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered mysterious fossilized facial fragments that belonged to an unknown early human species. The bones are the oldest human fossils discovered in Western Europe, ...

Spanish researchers have found the remains of a facial fragment in Atapuerca, in northern Spain, which has been identified as the oldest ... first human migrations in Europe. The fossil, unearthed ...

it is now the oldest known fossil in Western Europe. It is more primitive than those of the Homo antecessor that lived in Europe around 800,000 to 1.2 million years ago. The fossil has similarities to ...