Thousands of years ago, a human adult and child walked together along the shore of a lake that once existed in what is now a desert in New Mexico. Little did they know that their footprints would be ...

Paleontologists have suggested the prints may belong to a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the area more than 200 million years ago Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE.

A close examination of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human-like bipedalism substantially ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric ...

Fossil tracks preserved in a South Korean rock formation are the first footprint evidence that some ancient ancestors of modern crocodiles walked on two legs. The size and spacing of the ...

Researchers hypothesize that this footprint was made by a member of the hominin species Paranthropus boisei. Kevin Hatala / Chatham University Roughly 1.5 million years ago, members of two different ...

Rain pattered in freshly laid volcanic ash across northern Tanzania some 3.66 million years ago. Before the ground had fully dried—the volcano perhaps still smoldering in the distance—a trio of ...

(PRESS RELEASE) The Lafayette-based nonprofit Maddie’s Footprints is hosting its ninth annual Footprints Forever 5K Fun Run/Walk at River Ranch Town Square Saturday, October 20. Maddie’s Footprints ...