Australopithecus afarensis

on a Dusty evening following a volcanic

eruption on a nearby Hill a group of

hominin searched for trees to take

cover they were aware that Predators

might come out earlier due to the hazy

Sky a light rain began turning the fine

Ash on the ground wet like snow walking

together the hominin left tracks in the

ash like footprints on a wet

beach one of them a young homin worried

that these tracks might give away their

location but she didn't realize how

lasting those tracks would be over time

the ash would Harden like cement and

future volcanic eruptions would cover

their Footprints preserving their

Journey for millions of

years little did she know that millions

of years later in the 1970s

paleontologists led by Mary leaki would

discover their fossilized Footprints at

Lei in

Tanzania the tracks dating back 3.6 to

3.7 million years revealed the Journey

of these early hominin named ostop