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Fossil hunting? This White Sands find suggests dried up lakes are a good place to look.

Ice Age westerners lived for millennia alongside mammoths and giant sloths

This October 2023 photo made available by the National Park Service shows human footprints filled with white gypsum sand at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. A Denver-based U.S. Geological Survey team has established that the footprints are 21,000 to 23,000 years old. (NPS via AP)
This October 2023 photo made available by the National Park Service shows human footprints filled with white gypsum sand at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. A Denver-based U.S. Geological Survey team has established that the footprints are 21,000 to 23,000 years old. (NPS via AP)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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The Denver-based U.S. Geological Survey scientists who this month confirmed the oldest known human footprints in the Americas at White Sands National Park say their findings open the door for fossil hunting at hundreds of ancient lakes around the country including the Great Salt Lake.
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