[HN Gopher] UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed
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UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed
Author : peutetre
Score : 51 points
Date : 2025-01-02 15:12 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| consumer451 wrote:
| 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...
| louthy wrote:
| > The climate near Oxfordshire during the Middle Jurassic
| period would have been "humid, subtropical."
|
| And underwater if that map is anything to go by.
| consumer451 wrote:
| 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...
| louthy wrote:
| Pennine is further north (modern Derbyshire/Peak District
| [1]), so unlikely there. The Anglo-Brabant Landmass is the
| most likely location as it juts into the eastern Cotswold
| region (Oxfordshire).
|
| [1] Source: me. Born and raised in the foothills of the
| Pennines in Derbyshire :)
| casenmgreen wrote:
| Ah, like my bathroom :-)
| Etheryte wrote:
| Finally, an article about an interesting discovery that doesn't
| skimp on images. Props to the BBC.
| goldfeld wrote:
| 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..
| chris_5f wrote:
| 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.
| toyg wrote:
| you don't really need "AI". There are plenty of solid tools
| already available for archeology, typically what is lacking is
| the images to run them on. That's why they are still
| discovering entire "lost cities" - because someone takes good
| quality pictures for one reason or another, archeologists then
| feed them into their tools, and _voila_...
| nobunaga wrote:
| The fact that ppl think AI is now the solution to everything
| just because we have a good auto complete tech developed goes
| to show how much our industry needs a reset. The other day I
| read someones comment about how we should spend 7T dollars to
| get to AGI. If our industry had a little more sense and
| standard, half of the ppl in tech wouldnt meet the bar for
| sensibility. We probably would also be a lot further ahead in
| areas we need to be and id definitely enjoy working more in
| tech. Less idiocy, more sensibility
| casenmgreen wrote:
| So, wait, is this;
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| 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.)
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