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Footprints on Greek island are 5.7 million years old

Tracks could belong to an ancient hominin or a mystery primate.
Tracks found on Crete are unusually clear for their age, but their interpretation is anything but.

Tracks found on Crete are unusually clear for their age, but their interpretation is anything but. G. D. Gierliński et al./Proc Geol. Assoc.

Fossil footprints laid down more than five million years ago in what is now Crete could belong to a previously unknown primate, and perhaps even an ancient hominin — an animal more closely related to humans than to chimps.

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Nature 549, 8 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-03029-9

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