A huge footprint, stamped into the soil of Penarth beach in South Wales.
According to paleontologists at the Natural History Museum in London it is not just any trace but belonged to an ancient ancestor of a dinosaur, who lived over 200 million years ago.
It even dates back to the Triassic period and would have been left by one of the first sauropods or a relative of his.
"We know that the first sauropods lived in Britain at the time, as bones of Camelotia, a very old sauropod, were found in Somerset in rocks dating from the same period," commented Susannah Maidment, a paleontologist at the museum.
"We don't know if this species made these footprints, but it's another clue that suggests something like this could have created them," he added.
An amateur paleontologist found the footprint and sent the photo to the experts: "We get a lot of requests from the public for things that could be footprints, but many are geological features that can easily be mistaken for footprints," he explained. Maidment. Yet this time they understood that it was something more.
(Unioneonline / D)
