Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...

Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found - half of all the world's known hominid fossils. Inhabited for the past one and a half million years, ...

Million-year-old face fossil sheds new light on ancient human migrations - Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.

A chance encounter or simply crossing paths? The fossil footprints, studied by an international team, reveal a time when Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei shared the same habitat. These ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Pink: fragment (ATE7-1) left of the face of an individual assigned to Homo aff. erectus recovered in level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain). Credit: María D. Guillén / ...