A new study has dated the footprints found at White Sands National Park, suggesting they could be as old as 23,000 years.

A decision Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the Trump administration to proceed with a government-wide reduction-in ...

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 ...

The US' history goes back thousands of years, thanks to a wealth of archaeological sites that give insight into the first humans in North America.

They were long believed to have been the first to cross the Bering land bridge. Humans who arrived in North America before this group are often referred to as pre-Clovis.

For years, most scientists believed humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia during a brief period when ice sheets had retreated enough to allow passage.

Why did some species, including ancient humans, cross the Bering Land Bridge between modern-day Siberia and Alaska during the last Ice Age? The picture has only gotten more complex.

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In the end, the compromise was the creation of a national preserve which allowed hunting and continued livestock grazing. But Eaton said, not one of the proposed wilderness areas was eliminated.

And more than a century after, in 1978, then-U.S. president Jimmy Carter created a new national monument celebrating Beringian heritage called the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve on the Seward ...