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Rare 130-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint Discovered!

2/19/2025

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A remarkable discovery on the Isle of Wight: a nearly 1-meter dinosaur footprint, dating back 130 million years, has been unearthed by palaeontologist Joe Thompson. He hailed the Iguanodon print as his finest find, exposed by recent storms. With its fate uncertain, Thompson urges the importance of documenting such fleeting treasures of our prehistoric past.

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A remarkable discovery on the Isle of Wight: a nearly 1-meter dinosaur footprint, dating back 130 million years, has been unearthed by palaeontologist Joe Thompson. He hailed the Iguanodon print as his finest find, exposed by recent storms. With its fate uncertain, Thompson urges the importance of documenting such fleeting treasures of our prehistoric past.