Researchers take multiple mud cores from White Sands to find out the age of footprints recorded in it, but some remain ...

The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands ...

Learn about a new study that confirms ancient footprints in New Mexico are over 21,000 years old, rewriting the history of ...

The footprints, whose discovery was announced in 2021, indicate that humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of ...

In White Sands National Park, New Mexico, mingled among tracks of mammoths, ground sloths, and other ancient animals, researchers found human footprints. They dated the prints in 2021 to between ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Rover tracks crisscross the red surface of Mars, and ...

Dozens of awe-inspiring ancient footprints left on the shores of an ice age lake have reignited a long-running debate about when the first people arrived in the Americas. Two years ago, a team of ...

The footprints examined in the 2023 study were uncovered in White Sands National Park, a physically nearby yet vastly different geological area from the Clovis site. White Sands National Park ...

[Related: An ‘ancestral bottleneck’ took out nearly 99 percent of the human population 800,000 years ago] The White Sands footprints walk us through a different origin story. A 2021 study had ...