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36,500-Year-Old Footprints
Could these 36,500-year-old footprints that were discovered in the Carpathian Mountain Cave Re-Write History? This location has quite the historic significance. Transylvania is not only famous for Count Dracula’s legend, but the region was also where many battles were fought.

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In the 1960s, about 400 footprints were discovered in a Ciur-Izbuc cave located in the Western Carpathians of Transylvania, Romania. Radiocarbon measurements of two cave bear bones excavated just below the footprints indicate that Homo sapiens made these tracks around 36,500 years ago, say anthropologist David Webb of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues. The question still remains, what happened to the mysterious people who once lived in this cave?
 
ANC said:
I've collected some pretty nice ones in the area, in the past.
I was heavy into shells as a kid. I'm an aspy, so I can also rattle off their latin names.
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I lived in South Florida and collected Liguus tree snails before we realized they were being depleted & collecting was banned.
I have around 100 of them & to my knowledge at least half a dozen are extinct mostly due to habitat destruction.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liguus
 
ANC said:
I picked up a few specimens from high up a dune that was covered in trees at Lake Pleasant in Knysna when I was a kid. Probably still have it somewhere. I remember how light it was compared to a seashell.
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Yeah, the tree snails typically don't have environmental conditions requiring thick shells but this particular family can be unbelievably beautiful.
 
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