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 ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the Homo antecessor. Experts have found Homo antecessor remains that are around 850,000 years old.

Spanish researchers have found the remains of a facial fragment in Atapuerca, in northern Spain, which has been identified as the oldest known face in Western Europe, with an age of between 1.1 ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

Human Evolution 43,000-year-old human fingerprint is world's oldest — and made by a Neanderthal. Human Evolution Ancient jawbone dredged off Taiwan seafloor belongs to mysterious Denisovan ...

At roughly 43,000 years old, the dot may be the oldest human fingerprint on record and also one of the earliest symbolic objects ever found in Europe. The fingerprint, made with the red mineral ocher, ...

Scientists Found a 43,000-Year-Old Fingerprint That May Be the Oldest Ever Left by a Human The fingerprint’s Neanderthal owner was just painting a self-portrait. By Tim Newcomb Published: May 28 ...