Spotlight Fossil footprints show humans in Americas thousands of years earlier than thought, researchers say Matthew Robert Bennett and Sally Christine Reynolds, Bournemouth University Sep 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 0 Facebook Twitter Bluesky WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Are these the footprints of the first-known American teen? 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