The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

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.

The early modern human and Neanderthal model heads before they were painted, sitting on a shelf alongside a skull cast in the Kennis brothers' studio These techniques include layering clay over a cast ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the Lapedo child’s curious blend of human and Neanderthal traits. The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and ...

Researchers have discovered a 7,200-year-old skeleton of a young woman in a cave in South Sulawesi ... “This is the first time anyone’s found ancient human DNA” in the region known as Wallacea, the ...

and researchers reported on Friday in the journal Science Advances that they were able to date the skeleton by measuring part of a protein that's found primarily in human bones. open image in ...