but they are the oldest human footprints outside Africa. Dr Silvia Bello tells us about the gruesome yet fascinating behaviour of people living in a Somerset cave 14,700 years ago. Listen to the tale ...

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 ...

In a stunning discovery in Kenya, a set of 1.5-million-year-old footprints has raised new questions about the origins of ...

Until then, the oldest known footprints ... a fossil of human behavior -- prehistoric walking. Initially, a nearby volcano called Sadiman erupted a cloud of fine ash, like beach sand, that left ...