Ancient fossilised footprints of adult and child discovered in New Mexico desert

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A PBS show titled Ice Age Footprints will explore a series of fossilised footprints in White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico — including footprints scientists believe belonged to a human adult and a child as they walked together along what was then a lake. The show, which premieres on 25 May, follows a group of scientists as they endevour to identify and date a number of footprints in the area from both humans and animals alike — including giant sloths, mammoths, and the long since extinct American lion. The mud of the lake helped preserve footprints, which, in this one extraordinary case, appear to show a young person walking a long distance with a child on the lakeshore. “And then a set of child’s footprints appear next to that individual, then the child’s footprints disappear, and the individual starts walking again.