Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

It’s long been known that multiple species of ancient humans lived ... unearthed 1.5 million-year-old footprints from two sets of hominins, or extinct human ancestors, that show the species ...

In 2021, scientists discovered sets of ancient human footprints—now known as the Koobi Fora footprints—in northwest Kenya. A new study determined that these footprints actually contain ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Part of the reason for this theory was that ancient human footprints are rare in the Americas' fossil record. According to Moreno, many footprints might have been destroyed by retreating glaciers ...

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident. The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the volcano's ...

Follow the progress of the research team as they realise they have found human footprints that are around 900,000 years old. Happisburgh (pronounced Haysborough) is one of the most important ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens, tracing our lineage since it split from that of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. Gallery developer Jenny ...

A team of archaeologists and geographers from The University of Manchester have discovered that hundreds of ancient animal and human footprints found on a beach in Merseyside record a major decline in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 2021, scientists discovered sets of ancient human footprints—now known as the Koobi Fora footprints—in ...