Researchers Uncover 1.5 Million-Year-Old Footprints

Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 17:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Freshly discovered trails of ancient footprints, left on what was once the muddy shores of a river near Ileret, Kenya, indicate that some 1.5 million years ago human ancestors walked in a manner similar to that of people today. The international team of researchers who analyzed the prints say that those who left them had feet that looked a lot like ours. [More]

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