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2,000-year-old footprint rescued from Scottish shore as tide closes in
culture6 days ago

2,000-year-old footprint rescued from Scottish shore as tide closes in

Archaeologists rushed to Lunan Bay in eastern Scotland after storms uncovered a rare 2,000-year-old footprint dating to the late Iron Age near the time of Roman expansion. They documented and cast the print—creating 3D models and plaster casts—before the waves washed the site away, preserving a tangible link to ancient inhabitants and a snapshot of the landscape and ecology from two millennia ago.

"Jogger Discovers 140-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint on Brownsea Island"
paleontology2 years ago

"Jogger Discovers 140-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint on Brownsea Island"

A jogger at a red squirrel nature reserve on Brownsea Island in Dorset discovered the footprint of a Jurassic dinosaur dating back 140 million years. The footprint, identified as that of an iguanodon, a 36 feet tall, 285 stone herbivore, was found in a slab of Purbeck stone that had been imported to the island about 50 years ago. The significance of the footprint had gone unnoticed until now, and it will be available for public viewing when Brownsea Island reopens next March.