The Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain are home to the Sima de los Huesos, or "Pit of Bones," which has offered one of the ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

New fossil evidence from a Spanish cave suggests an unknown prehistoric human population once lived in Europe.

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.

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

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 ...