Fossilized bones and teeth are incredible, of course, but there's nothing quite like a fossil track that preserves an imprint of an actual foot—toes and all. Especially when that footprint, made about 1.4 million years ago by an extinct human relative, looks very, very human 👣 #FossilFriday
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Mindy Weisberger
Профиль VivelyScience writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her. Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
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Fossil footprints that look uncannily human were made by an extinct human relative ~1.4 million years ago & reveal that it was bigger & heavier than once thought—roughly equivalent to modern humans. Tracks also show that a group of these hominins crossed a lake bed that was home to crocs & hippos 🧪
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