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UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

by peutetre on 1/2/25, 3:12 PM with 14 comments

• by consumer451 on 1/2/25, 7:28 PM

  For reference, here is a map of the Earth's landmasses during that period. [0]

  The climate near Oxfordshire during the Middle Jurassic period would have been "humid, subtropical."

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic#/media/File:Mollweide...

• by Etheryte on 1/2/25, 7:31 PM

  Finally, an article about an interesting discovery that doesn't skimp on images. Props to the BBC.

• by chris_5f on 1/2/25, 9:19 PM

  I am curious if there is a full team that does the research?

  Do they use any AI Tools? The biggest question is do we have ant tools which helps in this? I think BBC or Discovery along with some archeological team should make a tool like this and leverage the tech power. maybe there are some patterns that we couldn't decode and AI can. Would be a fun thing to follow on.

• by casenmgreen on 1/2/25, 10:45 PM

  So, wait, is this;

  a. UK's "biggest dinosaur footprint" site unearthed

  i.e. a site with the biggest dinosaur footprint found in the UK

  or

  b. UK's biggest "dinosaur footprint site" unearthed

  i.e.a site with the most dinosaur footprints ever found in the UK

  (I can't easily check, BBC news site is in my personal blocklist, because their news home page is basically a mortuary. Try it - go to their news page, whenever, and sum the number of reported deaths. Normally 100 to 150.)