Moreover, their fossil record is dominated by skulls, teeth, and jaws – telling us a lot about their brain capacity, but obscuring their posture and lifestyle. That’s why the hip, thigh ...

However, the Western European fossil record is extremely bare before 800,000 years ago. Scientists have only found a single tooth and some stone tools dating to 1.4 million years ago in Spain ...

The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in the Sima del Elefante cave site near Burgos, northern Spain, and dates to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago. Its discovery ...

The fossil itself shares many features with Homo erectus, the species believed to have migrated from Africa into Asia and Europe around two million years ago. However, there are some noticeable ...

“The fossil was first discovered in 1973 ... “The Elgol dinosaur dates to around 166 million years ago, in the middle Jurassic, making it one of the earliest known ornithopod body fossils ...

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Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by geologist and paleontologist Gideon Mantell in England. Dinosaur bones ...