Dec 17, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of ornithopod dinosaur has been discovered in Spain dating back 125 million years to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. Life...

Dec 4, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of palaeomerycid ruminant that lived about 16 million years ago have been found in Spain, paleontologists...

Dec 3, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

An engraved object recently found at the site of Moli del Salt in Spain and dated to the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 13,800 years ago, may show...

Oct 30, 2015 by News Staff

Paleontologists from Spain and the United States have discovered a new genus and species of small-bodied ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago, before...

Oct 14, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 125-million-year-old ancient mammal fossil, which has been named a new species, in Spain. According...

Oct 8, 2015 by News Staff

Early birds were capable of performing aerodynamic feats in a manner similar to their modern-day counterparts, according to a team of paleontologists from...

Sep 8, 2015 by News Staff

The Basques are not direct descendants from hunter-gatherers of 10,000 years ago; instead, they have more recent genetic links to early Iberian farmers,...

Sep 1, 2015 by News Staff

The evolution of the human body’s size and shape has gone through four stages, says an international group of anthropologists from the United States,...

Aug 18, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists from the United States, France, Germany and Spain has identified a Lower Cretaceous freshwater plant named Montsechia vidalii...

May 28, 2015 by News Staff

Wounds identified on a 430,000-year-old hominin skull from the archaeological site of Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain may indicate one of the first...

Mar 10, 2015 by News Staff

A multinational team of scientists headed by Dr Adrienne Jochum from the University of Bern, Switzerland, has described two new species of the genus Zospeum...

Aug 21, 2014 by News Staff

Archaeologists led by Dr Alfred Sanchis Serra from the Museu de Prehistòria de València have reported evidence of land snail consumption from the archaeological...

Jun 26, 2014 by News Staff

Analysis of sediment samples from El Salt – a known site of Neanderthal occupation in Spain that dates back 50,000 years – suggests that Neanderthals...

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

A previously unknown painting by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian painter and architect better known as Raphael, has been identified by Granada University...

Jan 27, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

The genome sequence of a man who lived in what is modern Spain 7,000 years ago reveals that European hunter-gatherers were dark-skinned and blue-eyed. This...

Dec 4, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a 400,000-year-old...

May 3, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study led by Dr Salvador Moya-Sola from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, is the first to examine the pelvis fragments of an early hominid...

Nov 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An 11.6 million year old giant panda’s cousin, described earlier this year and attributed to the genus Agriarctos, has been re-evaluated and considered...

Sep 20, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study of fire-damaged artifacts found at the Molí del Salt site in Spain has revealed that hunter-gatherer humans of the Upper Paleolithic Age recycled...

Jun 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Spanish archaeologists have unearthed the most ancient Neolithic bow found to date in Europe at the lake site of La Draga. The bow discovered at the Neolithic...