Hardambil: episode 8 – Dr. Emma Nicholls(Oxford University)

Less than a century ago, during the turmoil of World War II, when American planes dropped bombs over the city of Munich, the city’s residents were defenseless, and so was the Munich Museum. Important remains of dinosaur species were pulverized.Decades later, Gary Johnson chose not to simply walk past the footprints. Instead, he did something that not only shed new light on dinosaurs but also helped us piece together more fragments of the distant past—fragments that reveal the astonishing path of evolution and the wonders of nature. Throughout this journey, Mark Stanway, a mining engineer at Dyorz Farm, was a cornerstone of the research. Choosing whether to step over the footprints or stand still was Gary Johnson’s big decision, perhaps the most important decision of his life.One perfectly ordinary day, as Gary Johnson was preparing the ground for a mining excavation, he came across some strangely shaped markings in the soil. They turned out to be dinosaur footprints left more than 100 million years ago, in the Middle Jurassic, by creatures that had passed through what we now know as Oxfordshire.In this episode of the Adoler podcast, Dr. Emma Nicholls from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, a researcher, paleontologist, and a key member of the team investigating the footprints at this site, introduces us to the charming and mysterious world of ancient tracks.For more information, you can check out the link below. We recommend watching the BBC series produced on this topic, which was broadcast under the title “Digging for Britain.”https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BcvFG0t-esKadJM3EWsviM3B_-LfCqYOMusic:Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565