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  1. 2-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Be The Oldest Example of an Early Human

    2 days 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 …

  2. Fossilized Footprints - U.S. National Park Service

    Jan 3, 2026 · The fossilized footprints of White Sands are probably the most important resources in the Americas to understand the interaction of humans and extinct animals from the ice age.

  3. 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 …

  4. 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...

  5. 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 …

  6. 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 …

  7. 85 remarkably preserved human footprints have emerged on a ... - MSN

    Eighty-five fossilized human footprints discovered on a beach in northern Morocco have been dated to around 90,000 years ago. Preserved in clay-rich sand, the tracks were made by a group of early ...

  8. Scientists Uncover 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints in the …

    Jun 19, 2025 · Preserved in what was once the muddy shoreline of a long-vanished lake, the tracks belong to early humans who left them behind as they walked through the Pleistocene …

  9. 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 …

  10. 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 …