An individual from an enigmatic hominid species strode across a field of wet, volcanic ash in what is now East Africa around 3.66 million years ago, leaving behind a handful of footprints.

The Laetoli footprints were formed and preserved by a chance combination of events -- a volcanic eruption, a rainstorm, and another ashfall. When they were found in 1976, these hominid tracks, at ...

The Laetoli footprints were formed and preserved by a chance combination of events -- a volcanic eruption, a rainstorm, and another ashfall. When they were found in 1976, these hominid tracks, at ...

Research results on the footprints were announced on 7 February 2014, identifying them as the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.

Hominid footprints preserved at a 1.5-million-year-old Kenyan site include an impression, shown here, attributed to Paranthropus boisei.Two hominid species probably interacted at the ancient lake ...

Also discovered by Dr. Mary Leakey in 1978, the 23-metre-long tracks of hominid footprints are sited in 14 locations at the Laetoli site also in Ngorongoro but in 1995 they got covered with an ...

These represent the second oldest known set of hominid footprints, the oldest being the 3.75 million year old footprint found by Mary Leakey in Laetoli, Tanzania that is thought to have been made ...

Other hominid fossil footprints dating to 3.6 million years ago had been discovered in 1978 by Mary Leakey at Laetoli, Tanzania. These are attributed to the less advanced Australopithecus ...

Our ancient hominid ancestors may have taken up residence in the Iberian Peninsula around 295,800 years ago, according to a new analysis of footprints found on a beach in Andalusia.

The earliest hominid footprints of any kind are roughly 3.75 million years old. They are the famous Laetoli footsteps in Tanzania, discovered in 1973 by Mary Leakey. They were made by the human ...