While walking on the beach with her two children, a British woman discovered eight fossilized dinosaur footprints in the small English town of Bexhill, in the county of East Sussex in the south of England. The flood and heavy rains washed away a lot of sand, exposing the sand, the woman said.
Vicky Ballinger, 39, was on the beach with her children at sunset when she made the astonishing discovery. She suspects that recent floods and heavy rains have washed away a lot of sand, exposing the fossils. She grew up in Bexhill but had never seen them before.
Balling, who filmed the footprints and uploaded the video clip to the YouTube platform, believes they could come from an iguanodon. “The children loved being able to see the tracks of a dinosaur and walk around where it once walked – that was very exciting,” she said in the English media.
Coastal area known for dinosaur footprints
The 39-year-old also took her video to the local Bexhill Museum, which will investigate further. The stretch of coast from Bexhill to Fairlight is known for dinosaur tracks and footprints. In 2018, more than 85 Cretaceous Period footprints were discovered on cliffs, belonging to at least seven different dinosaur species.
The rocks on which Bexhill lies are approximately 140 million years old and contain the remains of dinosaurs that once roamed the freshwater environment. Over the years, fossils have been found of several species that lived here during the Cretaceous Period – a geological period that lasted 145 to 66 million years ago.
Source: Krone
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