The mystery of the 290-million-year-old giants challenges scientists around the world

Discovered in 1987, the huge fossil footprint of 290 million years old in New Mexico is still a riddle to scientists.

Archaeologist Jerry MacDonald discovered this fossil footprint along with fossils of birds and many other animals.

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Mysterious footprints in New Mexico

According to the study, this fossil footprint dates back to the Permian period (from 248 to 290 million years ago), far away from the time when humans and birds appeared on Earth.

So why can human footprints appear in that period? Is it a prehistoric, an ancestor of modern humans? Archaeologists around the world still cannot explain this mystery.

But if this is true, Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong? A lot of controversy took place, one side believed that this mysterious footprint was a hoax, one side believed that the theory of evolution was wrong.

This 290 million-year-old fossil footprint was classified by the archaeologists as the most mysterious problem because they could not make any hypotheses about the reason for this footprint, who created it.

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Giant footprints in Africa

When conducting excavations in Africa, archaeologists also unexpectedly discovered a giant footprint with a length of up to 120cm.

This further increases the authenticity of the giant that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. Are we wrong about the origin and history of humanity? The answer may have to rely on scientists' findings, and future research.

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