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Fossilized footprints offer a unique window into the lives of prehistoric creatures, providing clues that bones and other ...

Scientists know this because they have examined 1.5-million-year-old fossils they unearthed and have concluded they represent the first example of two sets of hominin footprints made about the ...

Citation: A fossil first: Scientists find 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at same spot (2024, November 28) retrieved 23 December 2024 from https://phys ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known example of fossil footprints left by two different species of ancient hominins on the same day. The footprints date back 1.5 million years ...

Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.

Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.

There was no evidence of interaction. "The fossil footprints provide us a clear picture of that instant in time, 1.5 million years ago. The different human ancestors may well have passed by each ...

Fossil Footprints in Kenya Show Two Ancient Human Species Coexisted By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage ...

A fossil footprint in northern Kenya hypothesized to have been created by a Homo erectus individual, is seen in this photograph released on November 28, 2024. (photo credit: Kevin G. Hatala ...