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
Where’s the obligatory Helen Thomas picture?
The rapidly watming climate? The whole globe 🌎 must be involved? Poppycock.
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
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.
