
Hiker accidentally uncovers 280-million-year-old footprints in Italy
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While a married couple was hiking in the Italian Alpes, they saw something bizarre. Further research revealed the find to be prehistoric footprints dating back to a time before dinosaurs.
"It was a very hot day last summer and we wanted to escape the heat, so we went to the mountains," Steffensen told the Guardian. "On our way back down, we had to walk very carefully along the path. My husband was in front of me, looking straight ahead, while I was looking towards my feet. I put my foot on a rock, which struck me as odd as it seemed more like a slab of cement. I then noticed these strange circular designs with wavy lines. I took a closer look and realized they were footprints." Ashlyn Messier is a writer for Fox News Digital.
Once she identified the markings as footprints, the finding was passed along and further studied by a number of experts.