Ancient human footprints found in Africa
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Ancient human footprints were found in Africa.
The scientists found ancient human footprints in Northern Tanzania, Africa. The footprints are approximately 3.7 million years old.
The ancient footprints found in Africa were preserved by the volcanic ash, turning it into rocks. These footprints were first discovered in 1978. At that time, the footprints were assumed to be of a bear.
What is volcanic ash?
Volcanic ash is a mixture of rocks, minerals and glass particles that are thrown out from a volcano during the volcanic eruption.
Ancient footprints were earlier found by the researchers at Laetoli, a site in Tanzania. They suggested that the recent footprints don’t match with the others found at Laetoli. Therefore, all the footprints were made by different species.
Therefore, the scientists declared that the new discovery of ancient footprints means that there were two hominin species that existed in the same place at the same time.
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