Overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin tracks visible. (Kay Behrensmeyer / Smithsonian via SWNS)
Fossil footprints reveal that an ancient human relative was much taller than previously thought and travelled in groups 1.4 million years ago.
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One of the larger hominin footprints with a 6-ruler for scale. The tracks were made in soft mud and then filled in with sand by gentle shoreline currents, preserving the impressions. (Kay Behrensmeyer / Smithsonian via SWNS)
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Study lead Kevin Hatala, an associate professor of biology at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and an associate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, pointing out footprints of hominins among deeper hippopotamus tracks. (Kay Behrensmeyer / Smithsonian via SWNS)
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