A tourist during a walk in the Alps found traces of reptiles that lived before the age of dinosaurs
The owners of the largest prints had quite significant sizes – up to 2-3 meters in length.
A tourist has found fossilized traces of 280-million-year-old reptiles in the Italian Alps that lived during the Permian period, before dinosaurs. According to InterestingEngineering, the fossils were found in the Valtellina Orobi mountain range in northern Italy by local resident Claudia Steffensen while hiking in the mountains with her husband.
“My husband walked ahead of me, looking straight ahead, and I looked at my feet. I put my foot on a stone, which seemed strange to me, as it looked more like a cement slab. Then I noticed strange circular patterns with wavy lines. Looking closer, I I realized that these were paw prints,” she said.
Steffensen took a photo of the rock…
