A routine day at a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire has led to one of Britain's most significant dinosaur discoveries in decades. Hidden beneath layers of clay, hundreds of fossilised footprints have emerged from a landscape that existed around 166 million years ago, when the region lay beside a warm, shallow lagoon rather than rolling countryside. Stretching across multiple trackways, the prints preserve the movements of giant plant-eating dinosaurs alongside one of the Jurassic's best-known predators. Scientists believe the site could answer long-standing questions about how these animals travelled, behaved and shared their environment, with detailed digital records expected to support research for years to come.
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