5.7M Year Old Footprint Discovery of Human-Like Creatures in Crete Complicate Evolution Narrative
Most paleontological evidence suggests early humans evolved and diverged from their ape ancestors in southern and eastern Africa, remaining on the continent for several million years before migrating to Europe and Asia. Supporting this idea, last year research was presented on a discovery of footprints made by an early human ancestor more than 3.6 million years ago. The discovery occurred in Tanzania, Africa, and was made when some of our distant relatives, known as Australopithecus afarensis walked together across wet volcanic ash. The tracks were considered the oldest prints of their kind ever found. Lucy, a young adult female who...
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