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

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

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

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we ...

Bones from the hominin, dubbed “Pink” after the rock band Pink Floyd, significantly predate those of a species previously ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains. This carnivorous origin story has become so entrenched that few questioned it: our ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...

A human skull fragment discovered at the Sima del Elefante site at Atapuerca has become the oldest face in Western Europe.

Despite being conducted outside Africa and focusing on a primate far from the evolutionary lineage of Homo sapiens, the study ...