A woman hiking along the Italian Alps with her husband stumbled across the discovery of a lifetime when she found a set of 280 million-year-old footprints, the first trace of an ancient prehistoric ecosystem.

An individual plant or animal fossil is, even by itself, a massive chance to look into the history of our world and its living creatures. So how significant is a whole fossilized

Claudia Steffensen and her husband were hiking in the northern Italian Alps when they discovered reptile and amphibian footprints imprinted on a gray rock. 'It

A HIKER stumbled across an unbelievable “lost world” after discovering the fossilised footprints of an ancient reptile older than dinosaurs. Claudia Steffensen and her husband were

In the Italian Alps, melting snow and ice have unveiled a 280-million-year-old fossilized ecosystem, predating the age of dinosaurs. The remarkable discovery includes hundreds of well-preserved footprints of reptiles, amphibians, and insects from the Permian period.

A hiker in the Alps discovers 280-million-year-old fossilized tracks, revealing a lost prehistoric ecosystem and offering insights into climate change and ancient life forms.