News tagged with hominid footprints

1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)

Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Project to examine 'Yeti' DNA

(Phys.org) -- A new collaboration between Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology will use the latest genetic techniques to investigate organic remains that some have claimed belong to the ‘Yeti’ ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Taking a new look at old digs: Trampling animals may alter Stone Age sites

Archaeologists who interpret Stone Age culture from discoveries of ancient tools and artifacts may need to reanalyze some of their conclusions.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists announce discovery of 3.6 million-year-old relative of 'Lucy'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Within the coarsening base of an ancient mudstone exposure in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, researchers say they found evidence that provides new information about the best-known early human ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Top 10 Sci-Tech Stories Of The Decade

Discoveries, devices, and developments that have changed the way we view our world over the past ten years.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Modern men are wimps, according to new book

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book claims even modern athletes could not run as fast, jump as high, or have been nearly as strong as our predecessors.

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (41) | comments 40 weblog

New book further supports controversial theory of 'Man the Hunted'

Despite popular theories to the contrary, early humans evolved not as aggressive hunters, but as prey of many predators. "Humans are no more born to be hunters than to be gardeners," argues Robert W. Sussman, ...

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created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Was ability to run early man's Achilles heel?

The earliest humans almost certainly walked upright on two legs but may have struggled to run at even half the speed of modern man, new research suggests.

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created Sep 11, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought

Alleged footprints of early Americans found in volcanic rock in Mexico are either extremely old - more than 1 million years older than other evidence of human presence in the Western Hemisphere - or not footprints ...

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created Dec 01, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0


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