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 Ital… ...

An ordinary hike through the Italian Alps has unveiled an extraordinary discovery—a 280-million-year-old ecosystem frozen in ...

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

Hiker accidentally uncovers 280-million-year-old footprints ... Claudia Steffensen was hiking with her husband through the Italian Alps last summer when she noticed what she described as "strange ...

Claudia Steffensen was hiking along a trail in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in the summer of 2023 when she stepped on a gray stone marked with unusual patterns.“My husband was in front ...

The site was found by a hiker over 5,500 feet above sea level. ... 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. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.

Hiker discovers 280-million-year-old fossils predating dinosaurs in Alps. Sujita Sinha. Updated Fri, November 15, 2024 at 8:28 AM UTC. ... Claudia Steffensen, from Lovero village, ...

Italian Hiker Discovers Animal Tracks From a Time Before Dinosaurs, ... Claudia Steffensen and her husband embarked on a hike through a rocky trail in the Italian Alps.

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. Little did she know she had just uncovered a 280 ...

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 ...

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 ...