Wednesday, 29 July 2026

Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa

 


Image courtesy of Kevin G. Hatala

Footprints left by eight ancient hominins 1.43 million years ago beside a Kenyan lake have puzzled researchers because they don’t look quite as expected for species known to have lived there at that time.

Altogether, 21 hominin footprints have been found at the Lake Turkana site, known to researchers as GaJi10, part of which was first discovered in 1978. They are not the footprints of homo erectus or Paranthropus boisei,  

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James Woodford 2026 Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa | New Scientist 27 July