Scientists unearthed the UK's largest dinosaur trackway site in Oxfordshire, dating back 166 million years. Around 200 footprints from sauropods and Megalosaurus were found. Volunteers excavated the site,

Scientists have discovered a ‘dinosaur highway’ at a limestone quarry in southeast England. They uncovered five extensive trackways with over 200 dinosaur footprints that date back an incredible 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic period.

The prints were made by both long-necked sauropods and a predator, megalosaurus, and were found in one of the largest discoveries in decades.

These footprints offer an extraordinary window into the lives of dinosaurs,” one micropaleontology professor said.

Nearly 200 Jurassic footprints found in southern England reveal new insights into 166 million-year-old prehistoric creatures, according to scientists.

Fossil footprints uncovered at a quarry were left by huge herbivores and carnivores that walked Earth around 166 million years ago

Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period, at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.

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