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Giant Mammal-Like Footprints Reveal a Hidden World in Dinosaur-Era Brazil
The fossil record has long encouraged a simple picture of mammals during the age of dinosaurs: most were small, while giant reptiles dominated the landscape. Unusually large footprints from an Early Cretaceous desert in Brazil suggest that this picture may be incomplete. Researchers studying the Botucatu Formation in southern Brazil have described two large four-toed…
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Who Walked the Shores of Ancient Kenya? 1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal Surprisingly Large Hominins
Several early hominins crossed the muddy edge of a lake in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago. Their footprints survived long after the water disappeared, preserving a brief scene of movement that bones alone could never record. The tracks, uncovered at the GaJi10 site in East Turkana, suggest that some of these individuals were…
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Oldest Human Footprints in the Middle East Found in a Vanished Lake, Dating Back 115,000 Years
Northern Arabia’s windswept desert has revealed a moment frozen in deep time: seven remarkably preserved human footprints stamped into the floor of an ancient lake that vanished more than 100,000 years ago. According to a new study, these prints represent the earliest known evidence of human presence anywhere in the Middle East — a fleeting…