Academics have said they have found "the earliest human face of western Europe", after fragments of a skull were found at the Spanish archaeological cave site of Sima del Elefante. The skull of the ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.