Ancient footprints discovered in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging long-held beliefs about when humans first arrived ...

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 ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — A new study by the University of Arizona shows human life in North America may have developed much earlier than we thought. Researchers first found a set of human footprints at ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.

NICK ASHTON: We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. ROTT: Which would make the site ...