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Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.
Newly identified dinosaur footprints found on the Isle of Skye, off the coast of north-west Scotland, have helped scientists build up a better picture of life on the island 167 million years ago.
New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.
Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...
Dozens of giant dinosaur footprints have been discovered on ... in what is now a muddy lagoon on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. The prints were discovered in an area that’s impacted by tidal ...
All meat-eating dinosaurs were part of a group called theropods. The ones that made the Isle of Skye tracks were part of a family called megalosaurs. One possibility is Megalosaurus, which lived ...
Newly discovered footprints have revealed that ancient lagoons in Scotland were once a stomping ground for giant Jurassic dinosaurs. Some 131 footprints were found on the Isle of Skye, in the rippled ...
Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye show herbivores and carnivores drank from freshwater lagoons together 167 million years ago, scientists have said. A team at the University ...
Related: 166 million-year-old fossil found on Isle of Skye belongs to pony-size dinosaur from Jurassic Sixty-five of the tracks were recorded as belonging to theropods and 58 to sauropods.
It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye’s rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart – known as Bonnie Prince Charlie – arrived by boat disguised as a ...