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In South Africa, 100,000-Year-Old Animal Prints Reveal an Engulfed Pleistocene World

On the south coast of Cape Town, South Africa, an international team describes unprecedented fossil footprints of birds and turtles dating from the Pleistocene. This study, conducted by Charles W. Helm of Nelson Mandela University and published in the South African Journal of Science, documents traces left on ancient sand dunes today lithified. It answers a central question: which animals frequented these coastal landscapes tens of thousands of …
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On the south coast of Cape Town, South Africa, an international team describes unprecedented fossil footprints of birds and turtles dating from the Pleistocene. This study, conducted by Charles W. Helm of Nelson Mandela University and published in the South African Journal of Science, documents traces left on ancient sand dunes today lithified. It answers a central question: which animals frequented these coastal landscapes tens of thousands of …

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Science-et-vie.com broke the news on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
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