Italy's hidden treasures: a hiker in Valtellina discovers a 280-million-year-old fossil ecosystem

Footprints of amphibians and reptiles, but also plants, seeds, skin imprints and even raindrops: it's a real fossilized ecosystem on very fine-grained sandstone slabs that has been discovered in the Orobie Valtellinesi Park in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy. The find, unearthed by melting snow and ice caused by climate change on Alpine peaks, pr...