Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in UK quarry

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Hundreds of dinosaur footprints found in UK quarry   Researchers have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back to the middle Jurassic era in a quarry in Oxfordshire, southern England, showing that reptiles such as the nine-meter predator Megalosaurus moved along enormous tracks. The dig at Dewars Farm Quarry found five extensive trackways, one of which measured more than 150 meters in length, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham said on Jan. 2, 2025. Four of the tracks were made by gigantic, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs called sauropods, most likely to be Cetiosaurus, an up to 18-meter-long cousin of the well-known Diplodocus, they said. The fifth trackway was made by the carnivorous theropod dinosaur Megalosaurus, which had distinctive three-toed feet with claws. The buried prints came to light when quarry worker Gary Johnson felt 'unusual bumps' as he was stripping the clay back with his vehicle in order to expose the quarry floor.   BBC / REUTERS   Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein    #TheManilaTimes  #tmtnews  #jurassic  #dinosaur

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00:30We have very few places in the UK where you can go and see dinosaur footprints, so this

00:40is by far the largest dinosaur track site anywhere in the UK.

00:45It's actually one of the largest dinosaur track sites anywhere in the world and it has

00:49these incredibly long dinosaur trackways, so some of these are stretching well over

00:54150 metres.

00:56So this is really unusual, we don't find this kind of preservation, these very extensive

01:01trackways very commonly, so this is a really special place.

01:26It's just so exciting to be part of an excavation or to lead an excavation that is looking at

01:53such a wide, broad scale, a large geographical area.

02:00So we've got so many prints here, we've got so many trackways and we're several days into

02:06the excavation now and we're still discovering more trackways and also the interactions between

02:12those trackways is just so exciting.

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