In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western. Na način koji odgovara fortuity, ako ne i posljedica, Archimedes' kupelj i Newton's jabuka, [3,6 milijuna godina stare] fossil footprints su konačno primijetio jedan večeri u septembru 1976 od strane paleontologist Andrew Hill, koji pala dok Izbjegavajući lopta od slona nečist hurled to mu je ecologist David Western. ~John Reader, Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man ~ John Reader, Nedostaje Linkovi: lova za Najstarije Man