“Dinosaur Lion” unveiled in Britain

Fingerprints left by dinosaurs in the mud of a tropical Britain came to light in an Oxfordshire quarry, the largest group of prehistoric footprints ever discovered in the country. Around 200 huge traces have been revealed so far at the limestone quarry of “Dwars Farm”, which paleontologists baptized “dinosaurus boulevard”. The findings date back to mid-Jurasian Period 166 million years ago.

The larger number of tracks runs a distance of 150 meters, but it is probably much larger, as it has not yet been fully excavated. These footprints, which are reminiscent of an elephant print but are much larger, are attributed to vegetarian ceteosaurus, while the smaller ones come from sarcophagus large lizards, who were nine meters long and brought three fingers to each leg.

The footprints were spotted by a digger who observed mysterious pitholes on the ground. About 100 researchers rushed in the following days to dig up the area.

Final decisions on the future of the finds have not yet been made, but paleontologists are in discussions about their protection with Smiths Bletchington, to which the mine belongs.

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