A coalition of residents, environmental groups and campaigners have issued an open letter regarding one of Spain's most ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the Sima del Elefante cave, located in the Atapuerca mountains of Spain, is changing what we ...

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The discovery is particularly important as it places the arrival of the first populations in Europe before the 'Homo ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.

As Europe plans to up its defense spending, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian services believe that Moscow could be planning ...

EU leaders are gathering in Brussels on Thursday for a special council on defence, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron warned that the continent was at a “turning point of history ... increasingly ...

When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

Ancient DNA research in the past decade has revealed that European population structure changed ... the utility of ancient DNA in elucidating finer scale human population dynamics in recent history.