Intersecting paths of muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside 1.5 million years ago suggest two of our early human ...
Found at Koobi Fora near Lake Turkana, the footprints show that *Paranthropus boisei* and *Homo erectus* shared the same ...
Researchers say the footprints were left in the mud by two different species, perhaps within a matter of hours or days.
A new study of ancient footprints is the first ever to show that our early ancestors coexisted in a shared space.
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 ...
Smithsonian: Fossil Footprints Reveal That Two Early Human Relatives Lived on the Same Landscape in Kenya 1.5 Million Years ...
The footprints were left in the mud by two different species “within a matter of hours, or at most days,” said ...
Recent science briefings reveal China's effort to climate-proof potatoes, discovery of coexisting ancient human species ...
Researchers discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints in Kenya's Turkana Basin, revealing coexistence of Paranthropus boisei ...
In fact, the footprints indicate these two species were walking along the lakeshore within hours or days of each other, ...
The research included professors Kevin Hatala from Chatham U. in Pittsburgh and Craig Feibel of Rutgers and showed two human ...
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.