White Sands National Park in New Mexico is a park unit with opening and closing hours, which makes it a little difficult to get a sunrise shot. Nonetheless, the park opens early enough for you to ...

Sand scorpions, nocturnal hunters who spend their days in burrows, also leave distinct tracks.

Ancient seas left an expanse of rolling gypsum dunes known as White Sands in New Mexico, and within this surreal landscape ...

The gypsum dune field is about 275 square miles, out of which 115 square miles are located within the White Sands National ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

New evidence from White Sands National Park, the location of the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas, sheds light on ...

Experience the expansive dune fields of White Sands National Park as part of The Washington Post’s latest podcast “Field Trip,” a deep dive into America’s national parks.

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

The footprints are among thousands made by humans, mammoths, giant sloths and others in White Sands National Park, an ethereal landscape in southern New Mexico where waves of white gypsum dunes ...

"Being on a gypsum sand dune as the full moon rises over the Sacramento Mountains and illuminates the sky is a very special opportunity," said Brian Powers, White Sands National Park acting ...