A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony represent the oldest known footprints in Germany. The 300,000-year-old site ...

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...

White Sands National Park is celebrating its sixth birthday this weekend. White Sands National Monument was designated by President Herbert Hoover in 1933 and ...

In May 2020, a research team announced the exciting results of their study of the largest fossil human footprint site in Africa: Engare Sero, Tanzania. With nearly 400 footprints, these fossilized ...

Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid ...

Recently while on a sunset walk, a family in the UK made an epic paleontological discovery. They came across several dinosaur ...

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 earlier than ...