High above the tree line in northern Italy, a wildlife photographer scanning a steep rock face for ibex noticed something ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

New research has indicated fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that up-ends what many archaeologists thought they ...

The discovery was made inWhite Sands National Park, where researchers studying the dry bed of the prehistoric Lake Otero ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known dinosaur footprints from Chile and the western margin of the ancient ...

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they ...

The oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas are likely fossilized human footprints found in New Mexico, challenging once-conventional wisdom regarding humans migrating to the New ...

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Over 1,000 dinosaur footprints have been discovered by scientists in a small town in northern Chile over the course of just under two weeks. The tiny town of Huatacondo now has the highest ...

Thousands of years ago, a human adult and child walked together along the shore of a lake that once existed in what is now a desert in New Mexico. Little did they know that their footprints would be ...

Mammoth bones and “ghost” footprints of ancient people are the latest evidence in a scientific debate about when the first humans reached the Americas. The fossilized bones, in particular, could ...

Scientists on the Scottish Isle of Skye find dozens of dinosaur footprints. On the Isle of Skye in Scotland, scientists with the University of Edinburgh's School of Geoscience discovered ...