On an un-named headland above a beach on the Cape south coast we find tracks everywhere, but will we find the holy grail of ...

Now, a team working in New Mexico has found scores of human footprints dated to between 23,000 and 21,000 years old. The discovery could transform views about when the continent was settled.

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 ...

In 1976, members of a team led by Mary Leakey discovered the fossilized footprints of human ancestors in Laetoli, Africa. The footprints were formed 3.5 million years ago when at least two ...

In White Sands National Park, New Mexico, mingled among tracks of mammoths, ground sloths, and other ancient animals, researchers found human footprints. They dated the prints in 2021 to between ...

"It's about 8,200 years old," says Dr Alison Burns, pointing to a perfectly preserved human footprint pressed into ancient mud on Formby Beach. It is one of hundreds of newly discovered ancient ...

A global map of the overall impact that 17 different human activities are having on marine ecosystems. Insets show three of the most heavily impacted areas in the world [left], and one of the ...

providing modern scientists with the oldest unequivocal evidence of human ancestors walking on two feet. They’re known as the Laetoli footprints, located along the southern edge of the Serengeti ...

“I was down on the ground, brushing everything off,” says Leno, recalling the adult human footprint she found not far below the surface. “I was ecstatic.” Just inches away, she spotted the ...

This 54-minute documentary takes the viewers on a global journey to explore how carbon has shaped our energy-intensive modern world and lifestyles, and what we need to do to wean ourselves off ...

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 ...