Footprints reveal prehistoric Scottish lagoons were stomping grounds for giant Jurassic dinosaurs

Jurassic Scotland revealed in fossil dinosaur footprints in an ancient lagoon

More than 100 dinosaur tracks left behind in modern-day Scotland about 167 million years ago reveal a tantalising glimpse of life during the Middle Jurassic. Palaeontologists have identified up to 131 footprints in rocks on the Isle of Skye, the largest and northern-most island in the Inner Hebrides archipelago of Scotland’s west coast. The tracks are described in a paper published in the journal PLOS One. Digital representations of selected tra…

Meat-eating dinosaurs shared watering holes with their prey

Scientists' analysis of prehistoric tracks suggests predators and prey drank at the same lagoons.

How Bonnie Prince Charlie ran in footsteps of dinoasaurs as he fled Culloden

Bonnie Prince Charlie ran in the footsteps of dinosaurs when he fled English troops during the doomed Jacobite rebellion, scientists have found.

Dinosaur footprint find changes what we know about prehistoric beasts in the UK

Rare dinosaur tracks found on Skye help researchers make exciting new discovery

RESEARCHERS have discovered that carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs “mingled” amongst each other 167 million years ago after finding rare…

Footprints reveal T. rex ancestors mingled on Scottish island

Despite being prehistoric predator and prey, massive meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs drank together from shallow freshwater lagoons on the…