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.
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,.
A groundbreaking study has uncovered the oldest footprints of early humans in Germany and the first evidence of elephants in the region, offering incredible insights into the past.
The oldest human prints every found belonged to a family of three who lived 300,000 years ago in what is now Germany. These individuals were a subspecies of archaic humans.