Science

Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago

Excavating the new trackway site, with footprints from hominins, birds and other animals visible in foreground. Neil Roach
Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Institution; Kevin Hatala, Chatham University, and Purity Kiura, National Museums of Kenya

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same – they record instants in the lives…

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