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Ohio University researcher: Footprints from Site A at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears
Unknown human ancestor may have walked a bit like a bear on its hind legs
By Charles Choi
Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania
By Nathan E Thompson, Luke D. Fannin & Jeremy DeSilva
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Enigmatic footprints, once thought to belong to a bear, linked to unknown human ancestor
By Katie Hunt
Prints Long Thought to Be Bear Tracks May Have Been Made by Human Ancestor (Published 2021)
By Isabella Grullón Paz
At least 2 bipedal human species lived nearly 3.7 million years ago
By Nell Greenfieldboyce