If there were a finder’s fee for incredible archaeology, a lot of it would be paid to mud. In their paper, the scientists actually examine why that ancient mud was so special at all: “An experimental ...

"An experimental study of modern human footprints in mud flats found that ... non-hominin mammal tracks," the scientists said in their paper. In the Burgess Shale event, the oldest organisms ...

In May 2013 a storm exposed mysterious hollows on the beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk. Follow the progress of the research team as they realise they have found human footprints that are around 900,000 ...

The paper’s authors say the footprints offer solid evidence that ... are considered to be within the human lineage that emerged after splitting from ancestors of great apes about 6 million ...

In 2021, scientists discovered sets of ancient human footprints—now known as the Koobi Fora footprints—in northwest Kenya. A new study determined that these footprints actually contain ...