SONOMA COUNTY, CA — This photo captured at Doran Beach brings to mind a well-known poem, "Footprints in the Sand." In this image, however, there are no footprints, only shadows. Patch reader ...

The footprints were discovered by Gerard Gierlinski (1st author of the study) by chance when he was on holiday on Crete in 2002. Gierlinski, a paleontologist at the Polish Geological Institute ...

Researchers have found 257 Neanderthal footprints over a period of five years at the Le Rozel archaeological site in Manche, France. The footprints were made in soft, sandy ground approximately 80,000 ...