A 280 million-year-old lost world was accidentally discovered by a woman while hiking in the Italian Alps. Claudia Steffensen ...

Hiker Claudia Steffensen stumbled her way 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 in the ...

Claudia Steffensen was hiking with her husband through the Italian Alps last summer when she noticed what she described as "strange designs" on a rock.

By 2023, enough of that cover had melted away for hiker Claudia Steffensen to notice some odd marks on the rocks.

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

Hiker Claudia Steffensen from Lovero, a village in Sondrio province, and her husband were passing through a rocky trail in the Ambria valley, close to the Swiss border, when they noticed unusual ...

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow before being stumbled upon by a hiker in the Italian Alps.

Claudia Steffensen, from Lovero village, was hiking with her husband in the Ambria valley near the Swiss border when she spotted unusual designs on a rock.

On a hot summer day last year, Claudia Steffensen and her husband embarked on a hike through a rocky trail in the Italian Alps.

A curious hiker asked experts about some strange prints she saw embedded in a slab in the Italian Alps. The slab proved to be ...

Claudia Steffensen was hiking in the Italian Alps in 2023 when something caught her eye. She stepped on a rock with a footprint embedded in it.

A 280 million-year-old lost world was accidentally discovered by a woman while hiking in the Italian Alps. Claudia Steffensen and her husband were trekking along a trail in the Valtellina Orobie ...