A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry stumbled upon a 'dinosaur highway' with nearly 200 tracks dating back 166 million years. The discovery, made after a team of over 100 people excavated the Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, sheds light on the Middle Jurassic period.
A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.
“Scientists have known about and been studying Megalosaurus for longer than any other dinosaur on Earth, and yet these recent discoveries prove there is still new evidence of these animals out there, waiting to be found,” said Emma Nicholls, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Nearly 30 years ago, 40 sets of footprints discovered in a limestone quarry in the area were considered one of the world’s most scientifically important dinosaur track sites.
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