300,000-Year-Old Footprints of Homo heidelbergensis Found in Germany sci.news - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sci.news Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony are the oldest known footprints in Germany an incredible snapshot of the ancient past.
Scientists believe they have discovered the earliest human footprints - tracks left by a family of extinct humans 300,000 years ago. The perfectly preserved prints of a small family of 'Heidelberg people,' a species of human long since extinct,.