Footprints in Kenya ‘show distant relatives of modern humans coexisted’

Researchers say fossilised marks were apparently made in same place within days of each other about 1.5m years ago

About 1.5m years ago a big-toothed cousin of prehistoric humans walked quickly along a lakeside in Kenya, footprints marking the muddy ground. But they were not our only distant relative on the scene: treading the same ground was the early human Homo erectus.

Researchers say an analysis of fossilised footprints discovered in deposits of the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya, suggest the marks were made by two different species on the human family tree who were in the same place within hours or days of each other.

Topics

Footprints show two species of ancient human relatives shared the same ground at the same time

World - Yahoo News - 5 hours ago
Footprints show two species of ancient human relatives shared the same ground at the same time

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time 1.5 million years ago, a study found.
Top stories - NBC News - 5 hours ago
Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted.
Science - The New York Times - 5 hours ago
Muddy footprints suggest 2 species of early humans were neighbors in Kenya 1.5 million years ago

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago
Tech - ABC News - 5 hours ago
The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

Loved by tourists, elephants are, however, often loathed by farmers. Elephant conservation has been a been a success in Tsavo in Kenya, with their number increasing by about 6,000 in the mid-1990s ...
World - The Guardian - November 18
Wretched, haunted but human: David Coote was made by modern football | Barney Ronay

Refereeing is basically a nightmare now. Is it really a huge surprise a Premier League official should end up brutalised and spitting toxins on a sofa?. Farewell then, David Coote. You were the one ...
World - The Guardian - November 12
One Tech Tip: Home for the holidays? Show relatives you care with some tech support

As the holiday season kicks off, the journey home could also mean that those who are more tech-savvy will be called on to provide a backlog of tech support to parents, grandparents and other family
Tech - ABC News - 9 hours ago
Who is Kenya's new deputy president?

World - Yahoo News - November 1

Footprints in Kenya ‘show distant relatives of modern humans coexisted’

Topics

Related

Footprints show two species of ancient human relatives shared the same ground at the same time

Footprints show two species of ancient human relatives shared the same ground at the same time

Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another

Muddy footprints suggest 2 species of early humans were neighbors in Kenya 1.5 million years ago

The bee project helping to tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya – in pictures

Wretched, haunted but human: David Coote was made by modern football | Barney Ronay

One Tech Tip: Home for the holidays? Show relatives you care with some tech support

Who is Kenya's new deputy president?

More from The Guardian

Putin threatens to hit Kyiv with Oreshnik missiles and praises Trump

Hezbollah keeping ‘hands on trigger’ amid fragile ceasefire with Israel

Military vehicle mows down woman as post-election protests roil Mozambique

Mexican president claims ‘no potential tariff war’ with US after call with Trump

Højlund sinks Bodø/Glimt to give Amorim first Manchester United win