New Mexico: 10,000 years old fossilized footprints discovered in White Sands; see pics

In an unusual discovery, scientists in Alamogordo, New Mexico’s desert traced fossilized footprints dented in White Sands which y believe belongs to primitive humans from 10,000 years ago. US National Park Service said in an official release on October 16 that trackways and trample grounds along what used to be a Lake Otero carried footprints of ancient camels, sloths, Columbian Mammoths, child’s footprints that periodically show with or footprints, and a human carrying a child shifting trails on White Sand. 

“For 80 years, only a small collection of fossil footprints were kwn. However, a group of scientists ticed dark spots dotting expanse of lakebed that appeared to be footprints,” scientists at NPS revealed. y added, that fossil footprints were in fact scattered along w dried lakebed, around what may be ancient pools of water. Excavations at odd dark spots found ancient Harlan’s Ground Sloth and Paleo-Human footprints on site. park discovered footprints of a dire wolf located next to ancient seeds in 2010 from more than 18,000 years ago.

lakebed of Lake Otero seems to be almost devoid of a single artifact that dates to before Spanish exploration in 1500s, let alone ice ,” scientists said. 

Meanwhile, scientists have also often discovered pieces of stone flakes from toolmaking, arrowheads, and spear points buried in white dunes of Tularosa Basin that sheds light on life of ancient humans from  ice . While new discovery helps scientists unravel evidence of past life in region, in 2018 footprints of a female walking for almost a mile, with a toddler’s footprints and sloth’s explained ancient man’s co-existence alongside ice animals. However, scientists have long debated cause of disappearance of great beasts of ice .

“An adolescent or small adult female made two trips separated by at least several hours, carrying a young child in at least one direction.

This research is important in helping us understand our human ancestors, how y lived, ir similarities and differences," said lead author Dr. Sally Reyld of Bournemouth University in a release.

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Important reservoir for geologic timeline

As many scientists believe that ice ended because of earth’s climatic changes, scientists at NPA said that fossilized footprints at white sand are an integral resource in understanding interaction between extinct animals and humans from ice . Furr, many significant discoveries in Dunefield have scientists urging to convert White Sands National Monument into White Sands National Park as area was an important reservoir for planet’s geologic timeline.

[Odd dark spots were discovered to be hidden footprints. Columbian Mammoth footprints are most common. Credit: National Park Service Photo]

[White Sands has largest collection of fossilized human footprints. Credit: National Park Service Photo]

[ 10,000-year-old human footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Im credit: Cornell University.]

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