Footprints of 100,000-year-old Neanderthals show children playing in the sand

About 100,000 years ago, an extended family of 36 Neanderthals walked along a beach, with the children jumping and frolicking in the sand, scientists report after analyzing the petrified footprints of beachgoers in what is now southern Spain.

“We found some areas where several small footprints appeared in a chaotic arrangement,” said Eduardo Mayoral, a paleontologist at the University of Huelva and lead author of the study, which was published online March 11 in the journal. Scientific reports

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