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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.
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 ...
Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...