A Married Couple Just Made Headlines For Discovering An Extremely Rare Prehistoric Site

The COVID-19 pandemic forced people all over the world to find things to do close to their homes. For Dr Joseph Botting and Dr Lucy Muir (pictured), that came in the form of a 33-foot (10m) quarry in a field near their house in Llandrindod, Wales, which they discovered was teeming with some of the richest fossil diversity anywhere on Earth. The extraordinary site was as full of fossils as any museum, most of them small marine organisms dating from the Middle Ordovician period, around 462 million years ago. More exciting still, the quarry is a "soft-bodied" deposit – a rare site where soft tissues have been preserved as well as hard remains like bones and shells, and a paleontologist's dream.

A Married Couple Just Made Headlines For Discovering An Extremely Rare Prehistoric Site