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 on its head as to when and how humans first settled the Americas. For ...

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 ...

It’s another piece of data in a scientific debate over when our ancient ancestors reached the Americas. For decades, ...

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

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 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 ...

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