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"It's about 8,200 years old," says Dr Alison Burns, pointing to a perfectly preserved human footprint pressed into ancient mud on Formby Beach. It is one of hundreds of newly discovered ancient ...

The workers tried to look for their colleague but instead found tiger footprints on the ground ... The victim's body was later found with a severed right hand as well as bite wounds on his ...

The majority of the Laetoli footprint site was excavated in 1978 ... The prints, say experts on hominid body structure, are strikingly different from those of a chimpanzee, and in fact are ...