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 fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.

Archaic peoples were descendants of the first ... Excavations over the past 10 years have uncovered the 11,000-year-old fossilized footprints of humans tracking a giant sloth, 10,000-year-old ...