The couple who discovered a ‘280 million year old’ ecosystem while hiking: clues to life before dinosaurs were found!
November 29, 2024
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A couple hiking in the northern Italian Alps saw snow and ice melting due to the climate crisis. a prehistoric ecosystem discovers. According to scientists, the ecosystem in
A couple hiking in the northern Italian Alps saw snow and ice melting due to the climate crisis. a prehistoric ecosystem discovers.
According to scientists, the ecosystem in this discovery existed just before the dinosaurs. Dating from the Permian period. Let’s explain this accidental discovery and this interesting ecosystem in more detail.
It all happened in November 2024.
Claudia Steffensen and her husband, from Lovero, a village in the province of Sondrio, continue along a rocky path in the Ambria Valley, near the Swiss border. A light gray rock covered in strange designs encountered
When they started examining the rock, they saw circular designs and footprints They realized it was so.
Steffensen took a photo of the rock and sent it to his nature photographer friend, who forwarded it to a paleontologist. Paleontologists, after consultation to an incredible result they were there…
The footprints were from a prehistoric reptile.
The Permian Period ended with the largest mass extinction caused by a sudden increase in temperature that the Earth has ever known. The current global warming occurs in Altopiano della Gardetta, in the province of Cuneo in Piedmont, at an altitude of 2200 meters. including footprints of a crocodilian reptile He discovered traces of other prehistoric animals in the Italian Alps.
Experts mapped part of the Valtellina Orobie Natural Park where the couple found the rock, including heights of around 3,000 metres, and hundreds fossilized reptile, amphibian, insect They revealed footprints. They think that the prints come from at least five different animal species.
A piece of rock illuminated many things.
Paleontologist Christiano Dal Sasso; During this period when dinosaurs did not yet exist, the owners had the largest footprints It has a height of 2-3 meters say.
Lorenzo Marchetti, an expert on trace fossils at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, said they were footprints such as “nail prints and the abdominal skin of some animals” He states that it is in a way that reveals impressive details.
The ecosystem too fossilized plant parts, seeds and even traces of raindrops It reveals. Experts report that their research will continue.
Ashley Johnson is a science writer for “Div Bracket”. With a background in the natural sciences and a passion for exploring the mysteries of the universe, she provides in-depth coverage of the latest scientific developments.