The Ur 501 jawbone is considered the oldest known human fossil from the Homo genus, with an estimated age of between 2.5 and 2.3 million years. At first, scientists believed this jawbone belonged ...

helping scientists piece together the complex story of human evolution. Here, we take a closer look at five of the oldest fossils that have helped shape our understanding of where we came from.

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in Western Europe.

Researchers discovered the facial fragments in a cave in northern Spain. National Research Center for Human Evolution Researchers in Spain have discovered mysterious fossilized facial fragments ...

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

The fossil of the left midface of a hominin between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old recovered from the Sima del Elefante site (IPHES-CERCA) ...

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known bone tools—dated to 1.5 million years ago—at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ...

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