{"id":32659,"date":"2016-12-14T18:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T02:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/ancient-human-ancestor-was-one-tall-dude-his-footprints-say"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:55","slug":"ancient-human-ancestor-was-one-tall-dude-his-footprints-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/ancient-human-ancestor-was-one-tall-dude-his-footprints-say","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Human Ancestor Was One Tall Dude, His Footprints Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/Technology\/WireAP_2fdcbb0b84b84419b711349a12aad6e3_16x9_992.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He stood a majestic 5-foot-5, weighed around 100 pounds and maybe had a harem. That\u2019s what scientists figure from the footprints he left behind some 3.7 million year ago.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s evidently the tallest known member of the prehuman species best known for the fossil skeleton nicknamed \u201cLucy,\u201d reaching a stature no other member of our family tree matched for another 1.5 million years, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 footprints are impressions left in volcanic ash that later hardened into rock, excavated last year in northern <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/news\/tanzania.htm\" class=\"\">Tanzania<\/a> in Africa. Their comparatively large size, averaging a bit over 10 inches long (26 centimeters), suggest they were made by a male member of the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/ancient-human-ancestor-tall-dude-footprints-44182334?cid=share_facebook_widget\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/ancient-human-anc...ook_widget<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He stood a majestic 5-foot-5, weighed around 100 pounds and maybe had a harem. That\u2019s what scientists figure from the footprints he left behind some 3.7 million year ago. He\u2019s evidently the tallest known member of the prehuman species best known for the fossil skeleton nicknamed \u201cLucy,\u201d reaching a stature no other member of our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38097,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32659\/revisions\/38097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}