Around 33,000 years ago, Europe's climate cooled and a new human culture known as the Gravettians, known for hunting woolly mammoths with spears and crafting Venus figurines, spread across the ...

The partial skull represents the earliest known human fossils discovered in Western Europe, according to new research. Scientists suspect the remains belong to Homo erectus, though they cannot ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches ...

Map of fossil localities showing evidence of hominins (either hominin fossils, lithics, or cut-marked bones) in northern Africa and Eurasia prior to 1.0 Ma. Credit: Nature Communications (2025).

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.

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...

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.

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new study.

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Wind and solar power have overtaken fossil fuel-generated power for the first time in Europe, according to new analysis.

Oil refineries across Europe will be forced to shut as the West abandons fossil fuels in the race to net zero, the boss of BP has said.