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

The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether their interactions shaped human evolution.

A fossil footprint in northern Kenya hypothesized ... stumble and slide on prehistoric muddy slopes. "It turns out, there are different gait mechanics – different ways of being bipedal," said ...

A research team led by Xing Lida from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing), in collaboration with co-authors from ...

Further exploration has led to the discovery of hundreds more fossilized footprints belonging to prehistoric reptiles, amphibians and insects. Fossils of plants, seeds and imprints of raindrops ...

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

and it is very possible that they lived at the same time and their fossils just haven’t yet been found. But for now, we believe it is most parsimonious to hypothesize that the footprints were ...

Unlike bones, fossil footprints cannot be transported by water ... How did these two distinct species of prehistoric human relatives interact? The answer, which scientists do not know, could ...

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 ...

Here, paleontologists have uncovered fossilized bones, footprints and ... came to rule a part of the prehistoric world. Older Origin: The discovery of a Brazilian fossil may push back the ...

Hiker Claudia Steffensen stumbled her way across the discovery of a lifetime when she found a set of 280 million-year-old footprints, the first trace of an ancient prehistoric ecosystem in the ...

While dinosaur fossils can yield unique insights about the types of animals that roamed the planet millions of years ago, their footprints provide other windows into the past. “Dinosaur tracks ...