Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of ...
New evidence suggests the extinct hominin Nutcracker Man was nearly 2 feet taller and dozens of pounds heavier than once ...
Research findings are available online in the journal PNAS. The original story " 1.4 million-year-old footprints reveal an ...
Fossil tracks found in the 1.4-million-year-old rock of Kenya have revealed a few fleeting moments of our early relatives’ ...
Ancient footprints reveal an extinct human relative was taller than expected and may have traveled in all-male groups 1.4 ...
One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for scale. Credit ...
Fossil footprints from Kenya suggest Paranthropus boisei grew much larger than previously believed and may have traveled in ...
Overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin tracks visible. Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian. Ancient footprints preserved ...
A trackway in northern Kenya preserves a "snapshot" of how individuals of an ancient hominin species interacted with one ...
A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group ...
Learn how 21 fossil footprints show that some P. boisei stood six feet tall and crossed Lake Turkana’s shore in a mostly male group. Twenty-one footprints cross a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, ...
A remarkable set of fossil footprints discovered in Kenya is giving scientists a rare look at how one of humanity’s ancient ...