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Footprints Rewrite the Size of a Human Cousin

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Jul 28, 2026
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In 1978, on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, a geologist noticed a deep rounded dent in the rock while her colleagues dug a trench to examine the sediment layers. It was a hippopo…

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