The oldest widely accepted evidence for human activity in North America is presented through mammoth bones from New Mexico’s Rio Puerco Canyon dated between 36,250 and 38,900 years ago. Additional ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first went to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005. When the ground was wet enough at certain times of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studying preserved footprints in New Mexico continues to provide insight into the first human movements in North America. A ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

White Sands National Park has some of the most archaeologically rich sand in North America, and it is within this New Mexico landscape that the oldest footprints ever found on the continent were ...