Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

The researchers believe the footprints were made within hours of each other on the shores of an ancient lake in present-day ...

Muddy footprints found beside Lake Turkana, Kenya reveal two ancient hominin species were once neighbors 1.5 million years ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 – ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

We know the footprints were made very close together in time because experiments on the modern shoreline of Lake Turkana show that a muddy surface suitable for preserving clear tracks doesn’t ...

Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...

Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

The footprints were found in 2021 in Koobi Fora, Kenya, near the eastern shore of Lake Turkana. They were first spotted by team member Richard Loki at the Turkana Basin Institute, says Hatala ...

A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment, ...