A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

Tracks of dinosaur footprints can hint at how fast the extinct animals moved. Here’s how guinea fowl can help fact-check those assumptions.

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

Back in 2021, a series of footprints were discovered within the mud of a paleolake bed which had long ago dried up. A 2021 study hypothesized that the prints ...

They radiocarbon-dated the mud from the footprints and relied on an independent lab to analyze it. A paper, published Wednesday in a scientific journal, found the mud is between 20,700 and 22,400 ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

The study, published in Science Advances, used radiocarbon dating of ancient mud layers containing the footprints, and the results were corroborated by independent laboratories. Three types of ...

The analysis of the ancient mud did indeed contradict everything we know about the first peoples of North America. Radiocarbon dating showed that the mud is between 20,700 and 22,400 years old. These ...

The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Distinct clawed footprints found on a slab of 356 million-year-old rock from Australia suggest that reptile relatives appeared between 35 million and 40 million ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...