Worker discovers ‘highway of dinosaurs’ with 200 paw prints
A remarkable discovery in Britain.
Labourer Gary Johnson accidentally uncovered an entire chapter of our planet's history with his excavator. The worker unsuspectingly pushed aside clay on a piece of land in Oxfordshire, in south-east England. What he then suddenly saw, he could never have expected.
Last summer, the worker stumbled upon the largest find site of dinosaur tracks ever found in Britain. The universities of Oxford and Birmingham confirm this. He found as many as 200 dinosaur paw prints in the ‘Dewars Farm’ quarry. The track is as much as 150 metres long and is described as a ‘dinosaur highway where herbivores and carnivores crossed in the Middle Jurassic’.
These impressive tracks left by five dinosaurs 166 million years ago will be revealed on BBC Two's ‘Digging for Britain’ broadcast on 8 January.
(FVDV for Tagtik/Source: The Guardian - BBC/Illustration picture by Sebastian Ganso from Pixabay)