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Re: UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

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Post by goldfeld » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 10:36 PM UTC

Etheryte wrote: post #4

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

And here I was genuinely under the impression it was about some startup's stack, way these news go, maybe british unicorns are perforce dinosaurs..

Re: UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

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Post by casenmgreen » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC

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.)

Re: UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

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Post by casenmgreen » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 10:46 PM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #3

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...

Ah, like my bathroom :-)

Re: UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

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Post by argsnd » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 1:40 AM UTC

casenmgreen wrote: post #12

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, an…

I mean yes news websites report on major incidents involving deaths.

Re: UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

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Post by Symbiote » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 7:01 AM UTC

casenmgreen wrote: post #12

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, an…

You could easily search for the same report in a different news source.

Re: UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed

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Post by potato3732842 » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 5:37 PM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #6

louthy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The climate near Oxfordshire during the Middle Jurassic period would have been "humid, subtropical." And underwater if that map is anything to go by.

After I posted that, I found this map [0] to try to figure that out. Still not sure, exactly. Would it have been on the Anglo-Brabant Landmass, or the Pennine? I mean, clearly it was above sea level, right? [0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Generalised-Mid-Jurassic...

>I mean, clearly it was above sea level, right?

Probably not by much. Think like Louisiana but with dinosaurs.