The first people to enter the Americas may have sailed from Japan around 20,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of ...

Vance Holliday jumped at the invitation to go do geology at New Mexico's White Sands. The landscape, just west of Alamogordo, looks surreal—endless, rolling dunes of fine beige gypsum, left behind by ...

Ancient seas left an expanse of rolling gypsum dunes known as White Sands in New Mexico, and within this surreal landscape lies evidence that humans have roamed the Americas for at least 20,000 years.

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – What if humans left their first mark on the Americas earlier than we think? An anthropologist said footprints uncovered here in the Land of Enchantment tell a new story.