A worker in a southern England quarry discovered a 'dinosaur highway' with nearly 200 tracks dating back 166 million years. The five extensive trackways reveal the movement patterns of dinosaurs across the ancient landscape.
Freeze Warning issued starting early Friday for Southeast Georgia, some Northeast Florida countiesNew Year’s Day police chase in Murray Hill ends with overturned SUV, arrestThis $33 scarf is like a heated blanket around your neckIn this undated photo provided by the University of Birmingham on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, work underway as five extensive trackways that formed part of a dinosaur highway are uncovered, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England .
In this undated photo provided by the University of Birmingham on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, a view of five extensive trackways that formed part of a dinosaur highway, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England. Four of the sets of tracks that make up the so-called highway show paths taken by gigantic, long-necked, herbivores called sauropods, thought to be Cetiosaurus, a dinosaur that grew to nearly 60 feet in length. A fifth set belonged to the Megalosaurus, a ferocious 9-meter predator that left a distinctive triple-claw print and was the first dinosaur to be scientifically named two centuries ago.
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. But that area is mostly inaccessible now and there's limited photographic evidence because it predated the use of digital cameras and drones to record the findings.
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