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The White Sands fossil 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 ]
Fossilised footprints in the salt flats of White Sands National Monument, in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico, reveal humans walking in the exact footsteps of a giant sloth and then ...
The discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the human story. New research is offering further ...
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]
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 ...
White Sands National Park is a national park of the United States located in New Mexico and completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range.The park covers 145,762 acres (227.8 sq mi; 589.9 km 2) in the Tularosa Basin, including the southern 41% of a 275 sq mi (710 km 2) field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals.
Human footprints from the last Ice Age at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Matthew Robert Bennett , Author provided We also noticed something interesting beneath the mammoth tracks in ...
A 1.5km-long Late Pleistocene Age trackway of Human (child and adult) fossilized footprints, as well as mammoth and giant ground sloth tracks have been found at White Sands National Park. Near Alamogordo, New Mexico [ 31 ] [ 32 ]