Takamatsu Gushiken, a "gamafuya," an Okinawa dialect meaning a person who digs in a cave, searches in a cave for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the ...

Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in northern Spain in 2022 have revealed a previously unknown human population that lived more than 1.1 million years ago, according to new research.

The team uncovered the remains—an upper jawbone and a partial cheek bone—while excavating a cave in northern Spain in 2022. The cavern, known as Sima del Elefante (or “elephant chasm”), is ...