1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species
A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.
First-of-Its-Kind Fossil Discovery Reveals Extinct Human Species Lived Together
Newly discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal how two extinct human species crossed paths within hours of each other.
Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted
About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind intersecting trackways alongside the footprints of antelopes,
Muddy footprints suggest 2 species of early humans were neighbors in Kenya 1.5 million years ago
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.
Remarkable Fossil Footprints Show Two Hominin Species Coexisting 1.5 Million Years Ago
A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ancestors' story.
Fossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within Hours
Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ago, researchers suggest
Fossilized footprints reveal 2 extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago
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 of many different extinct organisms,
Crossing evolutionary paths: New research finds different hominin species coexisted
In fact, the footprints indicate these two species were walking along the lakeshore within hours or days of each other, according to a study published this week in Science that Feibel co-authored. “You can never tie down where bones come from [because] they could be transported or carried off by carnivores or scavengers,
Two ancient human species walked the same path together 1.5 million years ago
Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.
Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another
A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...
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Muddy footprints suggest where 2 species of early humans met 1.5 million years ago
Scientists previously knew from fossil remains that these two extinct branches of the human evolutionary tree – called Homo ...
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Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens buried their dead differently, study suggests
Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...
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These two ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago
Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...