Each year 500,000 people visit New Mexico's White Sands National Monument to hike and frolic among gypsum dunes. Aside from the tourists, few animals in the region get much larger than a coyote or ...

Sometimes travel reveals something extraordinary. A view, a flavor, a moment that lingers long after the suitcase is unpacked. And occasionally, it reveals something much older than any civilization ...

The discovery was made inWhite Sands National Park, where researchers studying the dry bed of the prehistoric Lake Otero identified dozens of ancient footprints embedded in layers of sediment.

New evidence published in Science reveals that humans inhabited North America nearly 23,000 years ago—about 10,000 years earlier than previously believed. This groundbreaking discovery centers on ...

Fossilized footprints suggest human presence in the Americas far earlier than previously believed. The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human ...