Fossilized Dinosaur Footprints Discovered by Family on a UK Beach

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Recently while on a sunset walk, a family in the UK made an epic paleontological discovery. They came across several dinosaur footprints, each one perfectly preserved and hidden from human eyes for millions of years.

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00:03 This video was recently captured on the beaches of Bexhill in the UK.

00:08 And what you're looking at aren't simply strange rock formations in the sand,

00:11 but rather fossilized dinosaur footprints that are more than a hundred million years old.

00:16 The video was captured by Vicky Ballinger while on a sunset walk with her kids.

00:20 Recent high tides and heavy rains had washed away much of the sand on the beach,

00:24 exposing the much older rock underneath.

00:26 That includes deposits containing eight dinosaur footprints,

00:30 each one perfectly preserved and hidden from human eyes.

00:33 And while they haven't been dated just yet,

00:35 experts say they could be around 140 million years old.

00:39 The area isn't a stranger to prehistoric discoveries,

00:42 with around 85 fossilized footprints having been found in the area in 2018 alone.

00:46 Those included more than seven species from the Cretaceous period,

00:50 with some even having preserved imprints of dinosaur skin.

00:53 Paleontologists are expected to begin their investigation soon,

00:57 and will no doubt determine the type of creature that made the prints.

01:00 In the meantime, Vicky has a guess, saying she believes the prints were left by an iguanodon.

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