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Tumbler Ridge physician Dr. Charles Helm used to look forward to summer. Now, he dreads it. The town is one of many B.C. communities facing the imminent threat of wildfires each summer.
Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years were excessively rare.
Scientists identified a track made by Homo sapiens on South Africa’s Cape south coast.
Palaeoscientists have discovered a rock depicting 'A day at the beach' in the Middle Stone Age on a remote stretch of coast east of Stilbaai.
We studied tracks and traces of leopard tortoises for comparison, and used these to estimate that the trackmaker at our site was as much as 106cm long, at least 50 per cent longer than the largest recorded leopard tortoises.Many species of giant tortoises on islands have become extinct in the last few centuries.