{"id":4646,"date":"2026-06-10T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/dinosaur-trackway-uncovered-in-england\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:04:47","slug":"dinosaur-trackway-uncovered-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/dinosaur-trackway-uncovered-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur trackway uncovered in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-06-10 13:04:44<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Researchers have uncovered a dinosaur trackway in England.<BR><br \/>\n A worker at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire was the first to discover the dinosaur trackway, which was made 166 million years ago and is thought to be the largest of its kind uncovered in the world.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers believe the footprints belong to a Cetiosaurus, which is a huge sauropod.<BR><br \/>\nDr Emma Nichols, from Oxford University&#8217;s Museum of Natural History, told the BBC: &#8220;There were four trackways of sauropod footprints and none of them were the same size as each other.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;What that tells us is a possibility of a bunch of different things &#8211; it could be that they were all Cetiosaurus and they were moving as a family herd, or as a herd of different aged individuals, not necessarily related. Or it could be that we have more than one type of sauropod.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr Nichols explained that it&#8217;s not the first time a major discovery has happened in Oxfordshire.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;In 1997, at the first major excavation that is connected to the ones that we&#8217;ve been doing more recently, something really incredible was discovered, which is a Megalosaurus trackway.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The land in Oxfordshire would have been ruled by Megalosaurus &#8211; they were nine metres long and were Britain&#8217;s answer to T-Rex.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr Nichols explained that the area surrounding the tracks would have been &#8220;a really lovely tropical, kind of lush environment&#8221; during the Jurassic age.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;Britain was actually underwater, and there was a shallow inland sea covering Oxfordshire &#8211; but there was a series of islands &#8211; like the Bahamas or Florida Keys &#8211; and that&#8217;s where the dinosaurs would have been living.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;So Megalosaurus, Cetiosaurus and other dinosaurs would have been living on these little islands.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr Nichols observed that one particular footprint stood out among all the others because of the unusual spacing.<BR><br \/>\nShe explained: &#8220;There might be lots of reasons why the animal would do that, and of course we weren&#8217;t there 166 million years ago.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But depending on where in time the Megalosaurus is on that trackway at the point where the sauropod put its foot down, it could very easily be explained by Megalosaurus coming up behind it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-06-10 13:04:44 Researchers have uncovered a dinosaur trackway in England. 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