Footprints discovered in 1978 at in Tanzania and dated to 3.66 million years ago were widely thought to be the oldest uncontested evidence of upright walking in the human family tree.

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Humans Fossil footprints hint at mystery hominin with unusual walking style. A set of 3.7-million-year-old footprints were initially thought to have been left by a bear walking upright, but have ...

Scientists have discovered footprints in Northern Kenya that prove human beings have been walking our walk for at least 1.5 million years. The footprints belonged to a Homo ergaster, one of the ...

Our ancestors may have spent most of their time in the trees, but their feet were made for walking 2 million years earlier than thought. Footprints made in Tanzania, East Africa, by our hominin ...

Preserved in a dried-out layer of sand and silt, the team found a trackway consisting of 12 footprints (see image, above), evidently left by one individual walking in a straight line.

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