Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

A new study published in the journal Science Advances confirms that the peopling of the Americas began much earlier than ...

In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

A human footprint in the ancient mud on Formby beach radiocarbon dated to about 8,500 years ago. (Image credit: Jamie Woodward) "The footprints are preserved under the sand, ...

Nine miles from the volcano the Maasai call the “Mountain of God,” researchers have cataloged a spectacularly rare find: an enormous set of well-preserved human footprints left in the mud ...

Archaeologists working in Kenya found the footprints of two distinct human ancestors preserved in the fossilized mud of an ancient lake — walking side by side.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say. The seven footprints, found amidst a clutter of hundreds of ...

Archaeologists Just Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn't Be. ... “An experimental study of modern human footprints in mud flats found that fine details were lost ...