Three localities in New Mexico have provided significant findings in the understanding of human occupation in North America. After studying deposits containing extinct bison bones in Folsom and ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North America. The footprints first made headlines after a study published in 2021 ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake. These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin ...

David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first went to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005. When the ground was wet enough at certain times of ...

The discovery was made inWhite Sands National Park, where researchers studying the dry bed of the prehistoric Lake Otero identified dozens of ancient footprints embedded in layers of sediment.

Fossilized footprints found in White Sands National Park in New Mexico has led to new information suggesting human habitation in North America started thousands of years earlier than originally ...

New Mexico’s most famous fossilized footprints are every bit as old as they seem, according to a new University of Arizona study that bolsters the case for the earliest evidence of humans ever found ...

Ancient footprints discovered in New Mexico show that humans were walking across North America between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, researchers said Thursday. “We’d been suspicious of the age for a ...

(via PBS Terra) The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human footprints that suggest human presence in the Americas as much as 10,000 years ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North America. The footprints first made headlines after a study published in 2021 ...