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A Huge Cache of Incredibly Detailed Dinosaur Prints Just Emerged on The Coast of England
Coastal erosion is a slow force, but a powerful one, over millennia carving new shapes into the edges of land. And it can also reveal secrets hidden for millions of years - such as a new discovery on the coast of England.
It's a huge cache of 85 dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous, made by as many as 13 different species - the largest such discovery ever made in the United Kingdom. The prints are so well preserved that claws, scales, and even skin can be seen in fine detail.
They hail from the era that produced some of the most famous and beloved dinosaurs, around 145 to 100 million years ago, and included in the prints are two of those beasts: Iguanodon, a tall bipedal ornithopod with pointy thumbs; and Ankylosaurus, a spiked herbivore covered with heavy armoured bone plates and with a clubbed tail.
But, ranging in size from 2 to 60 centimetres (0.8 to 23.6 inches), the prints include those from a possible species of stegosaur, as well as several sauropods, and carnivorous theropods.
Coastal erosion is a slow force, but a powerful one, over millennia carving new shapes into the edges of land. And it can also reveal secrets hidden for millions of years - such as a new discovery on the coast of England.
It's a huge cache of 85 dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous, made by as many as 13 different species - the largest such discovery ever made in the United Kingdom. The prints are so well preserved that claws, scales, and even skin can be seen in fine detail.
They hail from the era that produced some of the most famous and beloved dinosaurs, around 145 to 100 million years ago, and included in the prints are two of those beasts: Iguanodon, a tall bipedal ornithopod with pointy thumbs; and Ankylosaurus, a spiked herbivore covered with heavy armoured bone plates and with a clubbed tail.
But, ranging in size from 2 to 60 centimetres (0.8 to 23.6 inches), the prints include those from a possible species of stegosaur, as well as several sauropods, and carnivorous theropods.
