Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

Beneath the white gypsum dunes of New Mexico, scientists have uncovered something remarkable—trails of footprints that challenge what we thought we knew about early humans in North America. These ...

Footprints made tens of thousands of years ago may look like they’ve been erased by time and weather, but — like invisible ...

Researchers excavated human footprints out of a small bluff next to a dried-up playa lake and radiocarbon-dated embedded seeds to around 23,000 years ago. Their results suggest that people entered the ...

Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...

(CN) — New research on fossil footprint ... of labor of early humans may have delegated “fetching and carrying” tasks to the young. While the findings of the paper provide concrete evidence that ...

NPS / Alamy Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, reveal remarkably vivid vignettes of life in the late Pleistocene: children jumping in ...

Studying preserved footprints in New Mexico continues to provide insight into the first human movements in North ... A true insight into these early people.” Bennett said that while the ...