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Kenya Footprints Show Eight Large Hominins Moving Together 1.43 Million Years Ago

A PNAS study describes tracks from eight large hominins at Kenya's Koobi Fora, while leaving open whether they were Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus.

Hannah ReedJul 30, 20265 min

Modern footprints cross wet sand. Contextual Pexels image illustrating how tracks preserve movement; these are not the Kenyan fossil footprints.