Scientists uncover dinosaur footprints in England

OXFORDSHIRE, England (CBS, KYMA) - Dinosaur fans, this one's for you as scientists have uncovered a giant set of tracks over in England.

The massive trail of dinosaur footprints stretches over 650-feet in an old mining site in Oxfordshire.

The tracks were made more than 160 million years ago by enormous sauropod dinosaurs, four-legged plant-eaters with long necks and tails.

"It's just a really great experience to work on something in the U.K. of this size and scale. It's so rare to find something this big where you can get that picture into this past world," said Kirsty Edgar, a paleontologist with the University of Birmingham.

Researchers used controlled explosions to reach the dinosaur footprints, buried deep under layers of limestone.

Alongside the prints, they found ancient sea creatures, suggesting the area was once a shallow sea.

Experts say this is one of the longest dinosaur trackways found in the U.K.