1.5 Million Year Old Footprints Found

1.5 Million year old footprints have been found at the Koobi Fora Field School: The footprints were discovered in two 1.5 million-year-old sedimentary layers near Ileret in northern Kenya. These rarest of impressions yielded information about soft tissue form and structure not normally accessible in fossilized bones. The Ileret footprints constitute the oldest evidence of [...]

Valsequillo Footprints Back In The News

The Valsequillo footprints are back in the news, again. National Geographic has a story on new dates on the footprints:

Dinosaur Tracks from Yemen

PLoS One has an interesting article called First Dinosaur Tracks from the Arabian Peninsula which discusses a multi-taxon dinosaur trackway discovered in Yemen.

Laetoli Footprints To Have Museum Built Over Them

As I mentioned back in January the Laetoli footprint trackways are in some danger due to erosion from heavier than normal rainfall. According to Nature a solution has been chosen: The world’s oldest human footprints are to have a museum built around them in a bid to protect them. The 3.7-million-year-old tracks in an ash [...]

Laetoli Footprints In Danger

Rex Dalton, in Nature, noted that the 3.7 million year old fossil footprint tracks at Laetoli are in danger due to erosion caused by heavier than normal rainfall:

Mexican Footprints: An Update

Readers may remember the footprints found in Mexico that have been dated to about 40,000 years BP. Geotimes has an interesting story on the subject: In summer 2003, researchers Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University and Silvia Gonzalez and David Huddart of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom were dating and mapping the geology [...]