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In Photos: Hominin Skulls with Mixed Traits Discovered

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Skull researchers

Here, the team of researchers who discovered hominin remains, including several skulls, in the Spanish cave Sima de los Huesos.

(Image credit: © Javier Trueba / Madrid Scientific Films)

Here, the team of researchers who discovered hominin remains, including several skulls, in the Spanish cave Sima de los Huesos.

Water vole

fossil fragment from a water vole discovered in a Spanish cave.

(Image credit: Dr. Gloria Cuenca-Bescos)

A fragment of a fossil, the first lower molar, from an extinct water vole (Arvicola aff. Sapidus) discovered in the Sima de los Huesos cave in Spain.

Hamster fossil

The right maxilla with three molars from an extinct hamster were discovered in the Spanish cave Sima de los Huesos.

(Image credit: Dr. Gloria Cuenca-Bescos)

The researchers also found specimens from an extinct hamster in the Spanish cave. Here, the hamster's right maxilla with three molars.

Toothed white shrew

A tooth of the white-tooth shrew, <em>Crocidura</em>, discovered in the Spanish cave Sima de los Huesos.

(Image credit: Dr. Gloria Cuenca-Bescos)

A tooth of the white-tooth shrew, Crocidura, discovered in the Spanish cave Sima de los Huesos.