Dinosaur Highway Discovered in UK

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Britain's biggest dinosaur footprint site is found

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Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham found five of the UK 's most extensive dinosaur trackways, with the longest measuring 150 m in length.

Four of the tracks belong to long-necked herbivores - most likely Cetiosaurus , an 18-metre-long cousin of the Diplodocus .

The fifth track was made by a passing Megalosaurus , a ferocious nine-metres -long predator which stalked the boggy lagoons of Britain during the Middle Jurassic period.

Palaeontologists say it is 'very likely' that there are still more tracks to be found.

Additionally, the Dewars Farm quarry is still actively extracting layers of rock above the trackway surface which means there may be more discoveries to come as the Jurassic limestone is exposed. Smiths Bletchington , the quarry's operators, are working with Natural England to explore options to preserve the site for the future..

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