Dinosaur trackways are tremendously useful to paleontologists even though the fossil remnants dont involve bones.

According to the Birmingham release, the footprint highway is not the first to be discovered in Oxfordshire.

However, a lot has changed technologically in nearly 30 years.

One of the large dinosaur prints found at the quarry.

One of the large dinosaur prints found at the quarry.Credit: OUMNH

Paleontologists can catalogue much more information about the trackways than before.

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Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

A paleoart reconstruction of the trackways being formed.

A paleoart reconstruction of the trackways being formed. Illustration: Mark Witton

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