In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire ...

"These tiny sauropod footprints are quite rare," Xing ... suggest the presence of medium-sized carnivorous dinosaurs, potentially reaching lengths of 6 meters, he said. The discoveries add to ...

Hundreds of huge dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a so-called “dinosaur highway” in Oxfordshire. The stunning find was uncovered in a joint effort by researchers from the Universities of ...

How were these tracks preserved? These dinosaurs roamed a warm, shallow lagoon, and their footprints were preserved when sediments likely covered them after a storm, protecting them from erosion. The ...

a carnivorous 30-foot dinosaur known for its distinctive large three-toed feet with claws. One area of the excavation site showed the Megalosaurus and sauropod tracks crossing over, raising ...

Over 200 dinosaur tracks found in Oxfordshire Tracks date back 166 million years, offering new insights Scientists uncover footprints from Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus ...

That led to them discovering the specimen was a completely new species of snapping turtle - a large carnivorous turtle, long extinct, that they named Elseya mudburra. "[The carapace] is made up of ...

A worker digging up clay in an English limestone quarry discovered a “dinosaur highway” made up of 200 tracks dating back 166 million years. The Oxfordshire footprints include a mix of footprints from ...

Some of those prints belong to the Megalosaurus – a carnivorous bipedal predator as long as a city bus – and to herbivorous long-necked sauropods that could include Cetiosaurus. The latter ...