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Scientists Discover Europe's Longest Dinosaur Trackway in UK Quarry
- During summer 2025, teams co-led by Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the University of Birmingham uncovered a 220-metre sauropod trail at Dewars Farm Quarry near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
- The discovery occurred during limestone extraction work and was first noticed by Gary Johnson in 2023, with the quarry remaining active and no immediate plans to reopen while talks continue with Natural England and Smiths Bletchington.
- Researchers documented nearly 200 footprints, including many up to one metre long and about 80 giant prints exposed, alongside rarer three-toed Megalosaurus tracks.
- Using stride length and hip-height data, Dr Duncan Murdock and Prof Richard Butler say the dinosaurs moved at about 4 or 5 miles an hour, with footprints being recorded and reburied to protect them and over 20,000 images captured for 3D models.
- Dr Duncan Murdock and Dr Laura Green say the site offers a unique window into Middle Jurassic behaviour, with systematic sediment sampling and digital mapping underway for future study and display over the coming years.
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Scientists uncover dinosaur footprints in England
OXFORDSHIRE, England (CBS, KYMA) - Dinosaur fans, this one's for you as scientists have uncovered a giant set of tracks over in England. The massive trail of dinosaur footprints stretches over 650-feet in an old mining site in Oxfordshire. The tracks were made more than 160 million years ago by enormous sauropod dinosaurs, four-legged plant-eaters with long necks and tails. "It's just a really great experience to work on something in the U.K. of…
Scientists in the United Kingdom revealed this summer that they had discovered the longest dinosaur footprint trail ever found in Europe in a quarry in Oxfordshire. It stretches for more than two hundred meters and, researchers say, tells us more not only about the prehistoric animals themselves, but also how they moved.
British researchers have unearthed one of the longest dinosaur tracks ever found. The track is over 200 meters long and comes from a type of sauropod commonly known as a long-neck, writes the BBC. In the video you can see images of the long find.
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