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It's a bit mindblowing to consider that the imprinted weight of a human through the form of a foot survives one hundred twenty thousand years. Thousands of gene
by bt1a 6y ago
It's a bit mindblowing to consider that the imprinted weight of a human through the form of a foot survives one hundred twenty thousand years. Thousands of generations of human life passed, and this remarkably small piece of evidence remained locked in time, waiting to be discovered by future scientists.
Alright I need to slow down on the coffee this morning.
- sandworm101 6y ago>> one hundred twenty thousand years. Thousands of generations of human life That's nothing. There are plenty of fossil dinosaur footprints aged many millions of years.
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoFor what it's worth, fossilized "footprints" go way back to the appearance of multicellular organisms, the Ediacaran Period 600Mya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota
- blocked_again 6y agoThe article show the picture of a fossilized footprint. Could that have been one of our ancestors or a relative?