Anna K. Behrensmeyer currently receives funding for her research from the Smithsonian Institution, the Turkana Basin Institute, and the Leakey Foundation. Fieldwork that discovered the first ...

A crew of paleontologists and excavators unearthed the footprints in 2021 near Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya, where they were buried beneath layers of sand and volcanic rock deposited around 1.5 ...

(Louise Leakey via AP) Scientists study fossil footprints for clues about co-existing species of early human ancestors at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, in ...

Ancient footprints reveal that a thriving landscape 1.5 million years ago in what is now Kenya was able to accommodate two different species of hominin, living side by side. As Homo erectus and ...

One of the tracksites is the original ... the sand. Together, the sites containing these hominin tracks and traces provide complementary evidence not just of a human presence through footprints ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? This paints a remarkable scene of two ancient human species possibly interacting ...

In 1976, at the Laetoli site in Tanzania, paleontologist Andrew Hill discovered 3.7 million-year-old footprints by literally ... Hervé Morin Translation of an original article published in ...

These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a landscape teeming with wildlife, including giant maribou storks that stood 6.5 feet tall.A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed ...