In June 2025, a claim circulated online that elephants are made to travel with "hundreds of chicks" during air travel due to ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized facial bone fragments in the Sima del Elefante cave near Spain's Atapuerca Mountains that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest ...

Item 1 of 4 Archaelogists work on excavation at level TE7 of the Sima del Elefante site at Sierra de Atapuerca, near Burgos, Spain, in this undated handout image released on March 12, 2025.

Hominid fossils excavated over the past 30 years at Gran Dolina, a cave located near Sima del Elefante, come from a species Huguet’s group calls Homo antecessor, which lived between roughly ...

Diet and environment 1.2 million years ago revealed through analysis of dental calculus from Europe’s oldest hominin at Sima del Elefante, Spain. The Science of Nature , 2016; 104 (1-2) DOI: 10. ...

The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in the Sima del Elefante cave site near Burgos, northern Spain, and dates to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago. Its discovery ...