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January 2027 – Didcot Cafe Scientifique, Duncan Murdock, Uncovering Oxfordshire’s Dinosaur Highway
19th January 2027 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Didcot Cafe Scientifique
Tuesday 19th January 2027 Cornerstone Arts Centre 7.30-9pm
Uncovering Oxfordshire’s Dinosaur Highway, Duncan Murdock
In a stunning find, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago), the trackways form part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ and include footprints from the 9 metre ferocious predator Megalosaurus, and herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size.
Duncan Murdock
I am a Collections Manager in Earth Collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. I am responsible for the day-to-day management of the Museum’s mineralogy and petrology collections, and parts of the invertebrate palaeontology collections. I also have a significant role in developing new exhibitions and displays from temporary exhibitions.