THE ‘Sima del Elefante’ (‘Chasm of the Elephant’) is a chain of underground caves in a limestone outcrop near Atapuerca, a ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

They also serve as evidence of one of the oldest vehicles of all time—what’s known as a travois. The linear tracks from the poles and human footprints both date to roughly 22,000 years ago..

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

What they found is remarkable: North America’s oldest-known dinosaur ... Ultimately, the team dated the dinosaur fossil at 230 million years. The dino’s age is remarkable because it challenges ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

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

Scientists have unearthed facial bones that may belong to a previously unknown human species. The bones, nicknamed "Pink," ...

The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...