Giant footprints found at Karalmanna, a hilly village in Kerala’s Palakkad District, are now being projected by anthropologists as belonging to homo sapiens that lived in the area about 30, 000 years ago.

According to the team of anthropologists headed by Krishna Swamy the footprints which are two feet six inches in length, belonged to a giant human being weighing about 400 kilograms and having a height of about 17 feet.

The height of the cave in which the giant creature lived was 50 meters, and the creature must have used it to harbour animals that it killed for survival.