Reading through some back issues of the Daily Mail I was left at somewhat of a quandary.
The article is about 800,000 year old footprints found on the shores of Britain at Happisburgh, in fact the oldest ever footprints found outside of Africa. The scientists were in a hurry to record this momentous find because '' the tide was washing them away as quickly as it had exposed them.'

But excuse me, they had been there for about 800,000 years and now they are being washed away?