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The White Sands footprints are a set of ancient human footprints discovered in 2009 in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. In 2021 they were radiocarbon dated , based on seeds found in the sediment layers, to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. [ 1 ]
The White Sands fossil footprints in the Tularosa Basin are estimated by the National Park Service to be 21 000 to 23 000 years old and include footprints possibly showing humans stalking a giant sloth. [1] The footprints are located at the shore of an ice age era lake. As of November 2021, 61 fossil footprints have been found at the site. [2]
One of the last major discoveries of the 1930s in Pennsylvania paleontology was the 1939 discovery by Earl L. Poole of a large assemblage of Late Triassic fossil reptile footprints near Perkiomen Creek at a quarry where rock was being excavated for highway material. This site is now known as the Squirrel Hill Quarry.[64]
Researchers now believe ancient human footprints discovered in the ground at New Mexico's White Sands National Park date 23,000 years back to the Ice Age. The unearthed footprints, discovered in ...
A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the world – gypsum being a soft sulfate mineral used in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago, the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas and show people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age.
Dinosaur footprints Gray Fossil Site: Miocene: North America: US: Tennessee: Mammals Fossil Butte National Monument [Note 3] Green River Formation: Eocene: North America: US: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming: Fishes [Note 1] Schreiber, Ontario [Note 2] Gunflint Chert: Late Archaean – Early Proterozoic: North America: Canada: western Ontario & US ...
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. Fossil footprints show humans in North ...