Researchers have uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back to the middle Jurassic era in a quarry in Oxfordshire, southern England, showing that reptiles such as the nine-meter predator Megalosaurus moved along enormous tracks. The dig at Dewars Farm Quarry found five extensive trackways, one of which measured more than 150 meters in length, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham said on Jan. 2, 2025. Four of the tracks were made by gigantic, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs called sauropods, most likely to be Cetiosaurus, an up to 18-meter-long cousin of the well-known Diplodocus, they said. The fifth trackway was made by the carnivorous theropod dinosaur Megalosaurus, which had distinctive three-toed feet with claws. The buried prints came to light when quarry worker Gary Johnson felt 'unusual bumps' as he was stripping the clay back with his vehicle in order to expose the quarry floor.
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