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 …
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...
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 …
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 …
Fossil footprints confirm the earliest human activity in North America
Jun 30, 2025 · Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have now confirmed that humans roamed North America 23,000 …
Human footprints in New Mexico really may be surprisingly ancient
Oct 5, 2023 · Human footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico sparked controversy two years ago when scientists found the prints to be surprisingly old, dating to about 22,000 years ago.