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 years ago. The ...

Vance Holliday jumped at the invitation to go do geology at New Mexico's White Sands. The landscape, just west of Alamogordo, looks surreal—endless, rolling dunes of fine beige gypsum, left behind by ...

It’s crazy to try to imagine how long humans have been wandering this world in one form or another. It’s hard to imagine, too, how different the world then looked from the way it does now. Thanks to a ...

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 ...

Mastodon bone damage and unusual dating evidence fuel debate about whether humans arrived in North America far earlier than ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — A new study by the University of Arizona shows human life in North America may have developed much earlier than we thought. Researchers first found a set of human footprints at ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Researchers are studying the oldest confirmed remains of a domestic dog in the Americas and they believe DNA from the bone fragment holds clues about how canines made it the “New World ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...