A million and a half years ago, two distinct hominin species, Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus, roamed the same muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya.
The discovery offers direct evidence of different hominins' coexistence, raising questions on their interactions, as they might have shared the same landscape.
The footprints reveal insights into the anatomy and gaits of these hominins, showing how they coexisted in the Turkana Basin without leaving bones.
Previously, coexistence of these early human relatives was mostly inferred from fossil records, but this new find provides concrete evidence of their shared environment.
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