Hundreds of Jurassic Dinosaur Tracks Found in Oxfordshire Quarry

Researchers say over 200 dinosaur footprints discovered in a quarry in southern England are among the largest such tracks ever found.

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00:00Researchers in England are getting a glimpse into distant prehistory.

00:04That's after a worker discovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints from the Jurassic period in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

00:10This is by far the largest dinosaur track site anywhere in the UK.

00:15It's actually one of the largest dinosaur track sites anywhere in the world.

00:18And it has these incredibly long dinosaur trackways.

00:22So some of these are stretching well over 150 meters.

00:25The tracks are thought to be about 166 million years old.

00:29They sometimes cross and are from several different dinosaurs,

00:32including herbivores like Cereosaurus and Diplodocus and carnivores like Megalosaurus.

00:38We've got so many prints here. We've got so many trackways.

00:41And we're several days into the excavation now and we're still discovering more trackways.

00:47So far, a team of 100 researchers say they've discovered over 200 footprints,

00:52each one a physical trace of an unknown past.

00:55Patrick Chen and Bryn Thomas for Taiwan Plus.