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Ancient Footprints in Kenya Hint at Bigger Bodies and Group Behavior among Early Human Relatives


A set of 1.43-million-year-old fossil footprints preserved along the margin of an ancient lake in northern Kenya is offering paleoanthropologists new evidence about the size, gait and social lives of the beings who made them and reopening questions about which species they belonged to.

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