Is this where humans first walked in Europe? Archeologists make shock footprint discovery

By analysing the tracks of our ancestor, experts have determined that this person was 106-126 cm in height, according to the research published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews.

If they are neanderthal, it is only the second of our cousins’ footprints to have ever been discovered in Europe, alongside the ones found in Vartop Cave in Romania.

Gibraltar is believed to be the last place that neanderthals lived before they went extinct around 25,000 years ago.

Experts believe that neanderthals survived in Gorham’s Cave, also in Gibraltar, up until that point, and if the footprints do belong to them, and not humans, it would coincide with researchers timeline of events.