The Oldest Footprints

According to a scientist report in the journal Science, the oldest human footprints have been uncovered in Kenya. Its believed that the footprints found in Northern Kenya, may have about 1.5 million years old; Scientists note that they were possible made by an ancient human relative, "Homo erectus, a species that lived in Africa long before our species, Homo sapiens". The footprints were compared with modern humans and they are pretty much similar to ours. "These new prints confirm that the human pattern of walking was established nearly two million years ago," says Professor Chris Stringer, human origins expert at Natural History Museum and a "valuable information, since we still lack well-preserved foot skeletons of the species concerned, Homo erectus."