“Identifying key developmental changes allows us to understand how species-specific traits emerged throughout human evolution ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...

Meet 'Pink', the new face of human evolution in Europe Western Europe has a new oldest face: the facial bones of an adult nicknamed "Pink" discovered in Spain are from a potential new member of the ...

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

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe.

The discovery of a human facial fragment ... Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH)). The facial fragments, which make up the left side of an adult face, were excavated from the Spanish ...

A blast from the past! 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 ...

Homo antecessor had a "very modern" face which is "vertical and flat" similar to our own, said Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution. But Pink's ...