Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot be conclusively identified as any particular species.

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 ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Ostia Antica When Luigi Maria Caliò, a classical archaeology professor, first brought students from the University ... what may be the oldest existing ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results ... bones that show a range of features, said University of Zurich paleoanthropologist ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known human remains in Western Europe, estimated between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old, in Spain’s Atapuerca region. The fossilized facial bones ...

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 ...

lead researcher at Spain's University of Rovira i Virgili, during a conference. The bones were dug at the Sima del Elefante cave site, roughly 250 metres away from where the fossils of Western ...

Researchers from the University of Padua in Italy found ... shrub in the world dated by annual rings and the oldest woody plant in Europe determined with this method. "Juniper is the most ...

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 ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported ... that show a range of features, said University of Zurich paleoanthropologist Christoph ...