(CNN) — Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests. In the study, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, ...

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Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New genetic research now shows that dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes ...

Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

The fossil from northern Spain has been nicknamed ‘Rosa’. Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA., Author provided (no reuse) Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely ...

Christopher Columbus and other early European explorers were best known for the “new” lands they discovered and the people they transported. But there’s another side to the story, and it has to do ...

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 enables ...