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Combining palaeontology with rock climbing - ideal for sone one (although one assumes that they will abseil down for further study, but still a head for heights will be a must).

It is remarkable they have only just been noticed - can’t be attractive technical rock.

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#palaeontology #climbing #Italy #fossils #Italy

An image of a crowd of dinosaurs leaving footprints in the mud which then solidified and skewed through 90 degrees to create the cliff. Text reads Walking with dinosaurs … up a rock face in the Italian Alps A chance discovery has revealed thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years offering new insights into prehistoric herd behaviour Thousands of dinosaur footprints, some as wide as 40cm and complete with toes and claw marks, have been discovered by chance in the Italian Alps by a wildlife photographer who was stalking deer. The footprints cover a near-vertical rock face in a remote snowy part of Stelvio national park in the Lombardy region, which will host the 2026 Winter Olympics.
A photograph of two walkers at the base of the cliff gesturing towards the footprints with their walking sticks
#Italy #climbing #fossils #palaeontology

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