Researchers claim to have uncovered the "oldest face in Western Europe" after excavating fragments of a skull at the Sima del ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

"Our findings challenge conventional views on upper jaw evolution," the researchers ... making it difficult to compare mice with other vertebrates—human included—the researchers explained.

the incomplete skull—the oldest ever found in Western Europe—comprises part of a left cheekbone and upper jaw. The study, published in Nature, provides fresh evidence of early human migration ...

In the Chondrichthyes, the skull consists of chondrocranium and upper jaw. In the Osteichthyes through mammals, the skull is a fused unit in which the braincase is added to and welded together by a ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest ... The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found in northern Spain in 2022 and published in ...

Following this, biological anthropologist Dr Joseph Weiner and human anatomist Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, both from Oxford University, worked with Dr Oakley to further test the age of the Piltdown ...