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Fosillised Footprints, Pontdrift, Soutpansberg District These fossilised reptile footprints occur in sandstone where there was a dune in earlier times which was later covered by basalt flows. The animals of tile vicinity presumably fled to the dune where a large number of fossilised prints of various animals a Type of site: Trace fossils.
Makapan Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site Location Limpopo, South Africa Part of Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa Criteria Cultural: (iii)(vi) Reference 915bis-002 Inscription 1999 (23rd Session) Extensions 2005 Area 2,220 ha (5,500 acres) Buffer zone 55,000 ha (140,000 acres) Coordinates 24°9′31″S 29°10′37″E / 24.15861°S 29.17694°E / -24.15861; 29.17694 Location of ...
Lake Makgadikgadi (Setswana: Letsha la Makgadikgadi, [lɪt͜sʰa la makχʰadiˈkχʰaːdi]) was a paleolake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana from 2,000,000 years BP to 10,000 years BP.
A new analysis of three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years reveals that they were created by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s.
Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the moment, according to a new study.
The fossils were discovered in the mountains of northern Italy's Lombardy region after the snow and ice that once covered them melted away, scientists say, as a result of the ongoing climate crisis.
Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony are the oldest known footprints in Germany—an incredible snapshot of the ancient past. Archaeologists Found 300,000-Year-Old ...
Happisburgh footprints – early Pleistocene fossilized hominid footprints found in a sediment layer on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England, dating to more than 800,000 years ago, Ileret – footprints of Homo erectus found at Ileret, Northern Kenya, dating to approximately 1.5 million years ago. List of fossil sites (with link directory)