A team of 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford discovered around 200 dinosaur footprints along five trackways in southeast England during a week-long excavation in June 2024. The footprints date back to the Middle Jurassic period, offering new insights into certain dinosaurs’ size and speed. The environment for the dinosaurs at the time was likely lagoonal. The trackways were made by long-necked herbivorous sauropods and a carnivorous Megalosaurus.
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UK records hottest day of year so far – as 40C highs close schools in Europe | Weather News
The UK recorded its hottest day of the year at 34.7°C in London, amid widespread heat across Europe, where Paris reached 40°C and over 1,300 schools in France closed due to extreme temperatures. Additionally, wildfires in Turkey have prompted the evacuation of over 50,000 people, highlighting the severe impact of the ongoing heatwave. Explain It To Me Like I'm 5: The UK has had its hottest day of the year with temperatures reaching 34.7C, while...
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