Ice Age Footprints Preview
Preview: Season 49 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Ancient footprints provide new evidence of humans and extinct giant beasts of the Ice Age.
Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.
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Ice Age Footprints Preview
Preview: Season 49 Episode 9 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.
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Humans May Have Lived in North America Earlier Than Thought
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Scattered seeds help reveal when ancient humans first left footprints in North America. (4m 16s)
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