Earliest Human Footprints Discovered

I was fine tuning a stylesheet this morning and adjusting things for cross browser compatibility.. I opened Internet Explorer and found this article on the front page of AOL.  I thought it was cool  so I figured I’d share.

Earliest Human Footprints Discovered
By Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience

(Feb. 26) – Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men’s shoe.

The findings at a Northern Kenya site represent the oldest evidence of modern-human foot anatomy. They also help tell an ancestral story of humans who had fully transitioned from tree-dwellers to land walkers.

“In a sense, it’s like putting flesh on the bones,” said John Harris, an anthropologist with the Koobi Fora Field School of Rutgers University. “The prints are so well preserved .”

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