About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet. The bird appeared to probe the silty earth with its beak, once, twice, ...

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 ...

Fossil footprints discovered in Canada show that different dinosaur species sometimes herded together, shedding more light on social interaction among the prehistoric beasts. The footprints at the ...

Fossilized footprints of Homo heidelbergensis located in Lower Saxony are the oldest known footprints in Germany—an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the ...

KIMBERLY, Ore. (KTVZ) — A groundbreaking paleontological discovery at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has uncovered fossilized footprints dating back as far as 50 million years, offering ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – New research of drag marks found alongside ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park may represent one of the earliest pieces of evidence for the use ...

When you think of prime locations for finding fossils of the ancient creatures that inhabited our planet thousands of years ...

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