This secret location known as 'Jurassic Mile' contains incredible 150-million-year-old dinosaur fossils

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Paleontologists are uncovering the fossilized skeletons of giant, long-necked sauropods and the T. rex ancestor, Allosaurus.

This secret location known as 'Jurassic Mile' contains incredible 150-million-year-old dinosaur fossils

"If you want to open up the curtains, look back in time and say, 'What did the Jurassic look like?' This is where you come," says paleontologist Phil Manning from the University of Manchester., host Anthony Morgan visits the Jurassic Mile to follow new discoveries about Jurassic dinosaurs and why they died.One hundred and fifty million years ago, North America and Eurasia were splitting apart from the supercontinent.

Giant sauropod dinosaurs would spend much of their time eating ferns, cycads and conifers, but the predatory threat of Allosaurus was always present. Credit: Ideacom International Inc. have all been found in the area, as well as the top predator of the era: Allosaurus, a formidable hunter and predecessor of T. Rex.

"To get just the right environment to preserve those plants and animals, we have to have just the right chemistry. Because if it's too acidic, then the bones dissolve away," she says. "If it's too alkaline … the plants dissolve away. So we have that just-perfect chemistry going on.The vegetation of the Jurassic was very different from what we see today. Flowering plants had not evolved yet, so there were no fruits, no vegetables and no grasses.

 

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