Prehistoric footprints reveal a mother's perilous journey

Hidden for over 20,000 years beneath the dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, fossilised footprints reveal an extraordinary human story. Join Ella Al-Shamahi and Professor Matthew Bennet as they retrace the literal steps of one of the first people to walk the Americas, a prehistoric mother on a perilous journey. What can these ancient tracks tell us about life, survival and migration at the end of the last Ice Age?

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