A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest human face in the continent. The civilization possibly predated Homo erectus 1.8 ...

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 ...

They have already afforded a glimpse of hominids that were so ape-like in nearly every respect as to accentuate their one human-like trait: upright walking. More than ever, paleontologists say ...

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that ...

or the methods used by paleontologists. The Human Fossil Record room focuses on the paleoanthropological evidence for hominin evolution over the last 7 million years. Some articles describe how ...