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No one expected this on a climbing wall: thousands of 80 million year old turtle tracks
09 November 2026 FR futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated View in original language

No one expected this on a climbing wall: thousands of 80 million year old turtle tracks

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80 million years ago, an earthquake would have triggered something unprecedented: a collective rush of panicked sea turtles on the seabed. More than 1,000 fossil footprints may still bear witness to this today. But who really left these traces? 

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