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

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Scientists in Spain have excavated fossilized facial bones that may be from a previously unknown species of the human family.

Researchers say the fossil suggests a previously unknown human species lived in Europe over one million years ago.

Instead, he resembles Homo erectus, a far more ancient human species which emerged in Africa two million years ago and was the first to walk on two legs like a modern human. The researchers ...

beginning when members of ancestral species such as Homo erectus dispersed from Africa. In this model, isolation among hominin populations created regional variation in behavior and biology ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot ...

Scientists discovered ancient facial fossils in Spain that may represent a new human species, reshaping early European ...

Published research includes a description of the oldest human ancestor from Ethiopia dated to 6.3 Ma, functional analyses of the postcrania and teeth of the 4.8-4.3 Ma hominin Ardipithecus ramidus, ...

The team suspects the specimens belonged to Homo erectus, a species well-known from fossils found in Africa and Asia but whose remains have never been conclusively found in Europe. The mountainous ...