Researchers at The Queen Mary University in London just happened to be in the right spot at the right time. While surveying an area known for evidence of ancient humans, they found footprints.
Waves had uncovered what are not considered to be the 3rd oldest set of footprints ever found, and the oldest in Europe - 800,000 years old. Only those at Laetoli in Tanzania at about 3.5 million years and at Ileret and Koobi Fora in Kenya at about 1.5 million years are older.
Had the researchers not found them just then, the waves would have washed them away.
The official press release from Queen Mary University is here.
Additional information from Science Daily is here.
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