The country's largest site with dinosaur footprints has been discovered in Britain

In the UK in one of the quarries in Oxfordshire found the country's largest chain of dinosaur footprints. This was reported by the BBC television channel on January 2.

"About 200 huge footprints left 166 million years ago criss-cross the limestone," the channel said on its website.

The footprints show the appearance and disappearance of two different types of dinosaurs, which scientists believe were a long-necked sauropod called a cetiosaur and a smaller carnivorous megalosaur.

"This is one of the most impressive footprint sites I've ever seen in terms of the scale and size of the footprints. You can go back in time and get an idea of what it was like: these huge creatures were just wandering around minding their own business," Professor Kirsty Edgar, a micropaleontologist at the University of Birmingham, is quoted as saying.

It is specified that the traces of dinosaurs first noticed the worker of the quarry Gary Johnson, when he was driving an excavator. In the 1990s, another footprint was also found nearby, so the man guessed that it could be a dinosaur footprint.

The BBC recalled that in the summer of 2024, the said area was also excavated, during which five different paths of footprints were discovered. They belonged to sauropods, herbivorous dinosaurs, and another trail, presumably left by a megalosaur.

Earlier, on September 9, 2024, in Transbaikalia, scientists found footprints of a dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. It is assumed that the imprints of three-fingered limbs on the 800-kilogram stone slab discovered by scientists belong to a dinosaur close to iguanodontids (herbivorous dinosaurs of the order of birdsetasovyh). It is believed that these footprints were left in the early Cretaceous period (began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago).