Footprints found at ancient lake in New Mexico challenge old belief of first humans in Americas

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas are likely fossilized human footprints found in New Mexico, challenging once-conventional wisdom regarding humans migrating to the New World from Russia roughly 15,000 years ago, new research confirms. The new discovery suggests that the first people actually arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously believed. According to research published Thursday in the journal Science, footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lake bed in White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago.