Posted on 11/21/2024 1:34:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A stunning fossilized world containing remnants of amphibians, skin prints, plants, and seeds was discovered in the melting glacier ice of the Italian Alps.
Experts date the now-exposed lost world to about 280 million years ago.
The site was found by a hiker over 5,500 feet above sea level...
Scientists are learning that in real time after discovering an entire Paleozoic-era ecosystem, which had previously been hidden under snow and glacier. The paleontological site—located in the Orobie Valtellinesi Park in the Italian Alps—is so well-preserved that researchers discovered everything from footprints of amphibians and reptiles and fossilized plants and seeds to skin prints and fossilized raindrops...
Paleontologists discovered imprints of thin fingers, trails of long and curvy tails, and even ripples of waves on the shores of ancient lakes. The site remained completely concealed (and well-preserved) for millennia—until, that is, the current rapidly warming climate caused snow and ice to melt away. By 2023, enough of that cover had melted away for hiker Claudia Steffensen to notice some odd marks on the rocks...
She snapped photos and sent them to Elio Della Ferrera, a nature photographer friend of hers who passed the images along to the Natural History Museum of Milan. From there, a team of researchers photographed and mapped hundreds of fossil traces at the site. they are still emerging on the vertical walls of the area and in the landslide accumulations below, sometimes as high as nearly 10,000 feet above sea level...
Natural History Museum of Milan, said in a statement. He added that he believes the site contains examples of footprints from at least five difference animal species...
The animal traces are joined by fossilized foliage, stem fragments, and seeds.
(Excerpt) Read more at aol.com ...
The fine detail and remarkable preservation of these fossils is owed to their past proximity to water, the researchers explainedLost world with a 280-million-year-old ecosystem is discovered by hiker in the Italian Alps | Ellyn Lapointe | Dailymail.com | November 20, 2024
Thanks for the link!
It was hidden under snow and ice....which means the earth was warmer back then..
Where’s the obligatory Helen Thomas picture?
The rapidly watming climate? The whole globe 🌎 must be involved? Poppycock.
If it wasn’t for global warming this wouldn’t have been found!
These fossils are much younger than Helen was, so, it’s not appropriate.
The late Paleozoic icehouse, also known as the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) and formerly known as the Karoo ice age, was an ice age that began in the Late Devonian and ended in the Late Permian, occurring from 360 to 255 million years ago (Mya),[2][3] and large land-based ice sheets were then present on Earth’s surface.It was the second major icehouse period of the Phanerozoic, after the Late Ordovician Andean-Saharan glaciation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Paleozoic_icehouse
Bkmk
In geologic time aren’t current temperatures at record lows? If so isn’t more co2 in the atmosphere protective against further temperature drops
Butt, butt, butt.......pre recorded history so..... 😊👍
More like rapidly melting glaciers.
Which is exactly what one would expect even in an absolutely constant climate, since as a glacier melts, the volume-to-surface-area ratio shifts toward the surface area side.
In plain English: The smaller it gets, the faster what is left melts. (There will be other factors in play, but that is the major one.)
You can take a block of ice in your kitchen and chart the way it shrinks in constant time intervals. The smaller it gets, the faster it melts.
Why do climate alarmists do not understand basic physics?
No, and no. We’re living through a warming that has taken 2 million years to get to this point. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is in the few hundreds of parts per million, it has no vast impact on the climate of the Earth. And the climate is 100% natural 100% of the time.
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Listen to yourself. You are expecting ‘climate alarmists’ to think rationally, logically and calmly.
Get a Grip of yourself, man! LOL.
Let me get this straight. From the headline, a hiker stepping in something. I’ve done that while hiking, but nobody ever said it was 280 million years old.
I’ve stepped in stuff that *smelled* like it might be that old... :^)
I try, but sometimes it is really, really difficult. 😂
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