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Scientists from HVO examine paw prints in ash on the caldera floor ...

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The south edge of Kīlauea caldera after the explosive eruptions, showing a sun-cracked puddle of fine pisolitic ash, with paw prints from Teddy, the pet dog of Thomas Jaggar. These impressions were similar to footprints left by Hawaiians in the cemented ash of the much larger eruption of 1790.