Exploring Norfolk’s ancient past from 900,000-year-old footprints to the remains of a 10-ton giant

Stand on the secluded sandy beach in Happisburgh and you’ll be looking out across submerged Doggerland, an area that once connected Britain to mainland Europe. Rising sea levels in about 6500 BC reduced it to a series of low-lying islands before flooding the entire region. Fishermen trawling this part of the North Sea – named … Read more

Neanderthal footprints are discovered on a Spanish beach left by a child

Footprints discovered in the sand on a Spanish beach were left by a Neanderthal child 100,000 years ago ‘jumping irregularly as though dancing,’ study shows.  The prints have been uncovered due to stormy weather and high tides in June 2020, where they were spotted by a pair of biologists walking on the sand. They stumbled … Read more

Fossilised footprints reveal a mother and child’s treacherous journey 13,000 years ago

The remarkable prehistoric journey of a terrified mother and her toddler across a muddy riverbed frequented by ancient predators has been unearthed by scientists.   Fossilised footprints show a small adult, most likely a woman but possibly a teenage male, trekking for almost a mile across the hunter hotbed 13,000 years ago. Analysis shows the adult … Read more

Grand Canyon cliff collapse reveals footprints made by egg-laying animals 313 MILLION years ago

Grand Canyon cliff collapse reveals clawed footprints made by egg-laying animals that traveled up sand dunes 313 MILLION years ago A boulder fell from a mountain during a collapse at Grand Canyon National Park Experts found there were footprints in the red rock dating back 313 million years The tracks were made by two shelled-egg-laying … Read more

Three-toed dinosaur footprints discovered in China were left by a 17-foot cousin of T. rex

Three-toed dinosaur footprints discovered by rock climbers in China were made 190 million years ago by a 17-foot cousin of T. rex, a study found.  The prints — of which there are 46 — were found in march this year in the Geleshan National Forest Park in Chongqing, south-west China, in the March of this … Read more