On a windswept afternoon at Lunan Bay Beach, dogwalkers Ivor Campbell and Jenny Snedden made a rare archaeological discovery: footprints preserved in the sand. However, it quickly turned into a race ...

Hidden beneath layers of sediment in a long-dried lakebed, a set of fossilized human footprints—dated to roughly 115,000 years ago—has emerged as some of the earliest physical evidence of Homo sapiens ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, the shoreline looked completely normal. Waves came and went. Forests grew thick along the coast. Storms slowly changed the shape of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An endless ocean of white sprawling across New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin, White Sands National Park glitters with dunes of gypsum sand. From those ...