Articles for tag: ancient footprints

Tanzania’s Ancient Footprints: 3.6 Million-Year-Old Tracks in Volcanic Ash

Tanzania’s Ancient Footprints: 3.6 Million-Year-Old Tracks in Volcanic Ash

Annette Uy

Imagine standing in the heat of the African savanna, the sun hanging heavy above, and suddenly realizing you are walking where ancient humans once walked nearly four million years ago. The ground beneath your feet holds secrets—stories of survival, family, and the dawn of humanity. In Tanzania, a remarkable discovery has brought these stories to ...

Close-up of a fossilized dinosaur footprint in rocky terrain, Brezina, Algeria.

The Ancient Footprints at Karamea – Did Humans Arrive Earlier Than We Thought?

Suhail Ahmed

On New Zealand’s wild West Coast, the Karamea shoreline is a restless machine: tides sweep the Ōtūmahana Estuary, channels wander, dunes shift, and stories rise and disappear with the sand. That makes a provocative question feel almost inevitable – could traces of the first people lie hidden here, waiting to reset timelines we thought were ...