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First Steps at Laetoli
Origin Stories
Are the Footprints Still Around?
The original cast of Trackway A had been lost and the footprints had been reburied decades before. The chances of a bear doing that are 0.003 percent they really don't do it very often most of the time they either stand up to just display it one another or hold on to a tree like I'm going to eat a piece of it. So this is an unusual behavior for a bear the chance of capturing that would be incredibly tiny. With all of that Ellie had enough evidence to rule out the possibility that these tracks were made by bears but if it wasn't a bear what was it? To answer that question Ellie needed a team who knew Laitoli better than almost anyone
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