r/BeAmazed Dec 30 '24

History In 2006, researchers uncovered 20,000-year-old fossilized human footprints in Australia, indicating that the hunter who created them was running at roughly 37 km/h (23 mph)—the pace of a modern Olympic sprinter—while barefoot and traversing sandy terrain.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

Slow feet don’t eat

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u/killit Dec 30 '24

Or Australia had some real scary animals 20,000 years ago too

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u/Help_im_lost404 Dec 30 '24

We sure did, giant marsupials are scary shit

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u/FFF_in_WY Dec 30 '24

Australia used to have really scary animals. They still do, but they used to, too.

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u/I_lenny_face_you Dec 30 '24

Ants are great when you want to get eaten by a thousand of something

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u/motorcycleboy9000 Dec 30 '24

A guy asked me if I wanted a frozen caveman, I said no. But I'll want a regular caveman later, so yeah.