In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed ...

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

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin, right, ...

The fossils — which may date back to 1.4 million years — were nicknamed “Pink” in honor of iconic rock band Pink Floyd.

Discovery of a 1.4 million-year-old skull in Spain reveals the earliest known human face in Western Europe, challenging previous theories about early migration and evolution.

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

This week at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Amanda Gutiérrez Carbajal defended the first doctoral thesis on paleoproteomics in Atapuerca. The thesis was ...

A new study suggests that Neanderthals experienced a population crash 110,000 years ago, possibly contributing to their eventual extinction. Conducted by an international team of researchers, ...