Fossilized Footprints - U.S. National Park Service
Sep 24, 2024 · White Sands has the largest collection of fossilized human footprints. NPS Photo Every day, people from all over the world visit White Sands National Park and leave traces of their …
Tracking Humans’ First Footsteps in North America
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 puddles...
2-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Be The Oldest Example of an Early Human
1 day ago · An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old …
White Sands footprints - Wikipedia
The White Sands footprints are a set of ancient human footprints discovered in 2009 at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, United States. In 2021 they were radiocarbon dated, based on seeds …
Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient human ...
Oct 5, 2023 · In 2021, fossilized footprints from White Sands National Park in New Mexico were dated to between 20,000 and 23,000 years ago, providing key evidence for earlier occupation, although this …
Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North America
Oct 5, 2023 · In September 2021, U.S. Geological Survey researchers and an international team of scientists announced that ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park were …
The Oldest Known Human Footprints: What Do They Reveal?
Aug 1, 2025 · In recent decades, paleontologists, archaeologists, and geologists have uncovered a growing number of ancient human footprints across the globe. Each one has rewritten a piece of our …
115,000-year-old human footprints found where they shouldn’t be
Fossilized human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula are forcing researchers to redraw the map of our species’ early journeys.
Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More Than …
Oct 5, 2023 · Fossilized human footprints found in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park were almost certainly made more than 20,000 years ago, during the height of the last ice age, according to …
Scientists say they’ve confirmed evidence that humans arrived in the ...
Oct 5, 2023 · When the discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was made public in 2021, it was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the …