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The new site features over 130 footprints and trackways, some extending up to 12 meters in length. Jurassic-era dinosaurs ...
Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.
Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...
Tone Blakesley and Scott Reid under CC BY 4.0 Roughly 167 million years ago, carnivorous dinosaurs and their prey shared space as they drank from the same lagoon on Scotland’s Isle of Skye ...
'A Hidden Place'. An artistic reconstruction of the tracksite in the Middle Jurassic, painted by Tone Blakesley and Scott Reid. (Image Credit: Tone Blakesley and ...
Even though the slow-moving herbivores were likely prey for the smaller, sharp-toothed carnivores, said Tone Blakesley, the study’s lead author, the footprints show that they shared the same ...
A Hidden Place'. An artistic reconstruction of the tracksite in the Middle Jurassic, painted by Tone Blakesley and Scott Reid. Jurassic dinosaurs milled about ancient Scottish lagoons, leaving up ...
Lead study author Tone Blakesley, a Masters graduate at the Scottish university, told CNN that he was among a small group that recognized an initial three footprints at the remote site on the Isle ...
Many of the footprints belonged to theropods – meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs. These include morphotype-1a, a ...
Credit: Tone Blakesley This site supports previous evidence that Jurassic sauropods frequented Scottish lagoons. However, this site contains a higher proportion of theropod tracks than similar ...