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

131 Fossilized Footprints Reveal Clues About Scotland's Jurassic Period

Learn how newly-discovered dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye helped researchers reconstruct Scotland’s Jurassic past.

167-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Suggest Megalosaurs And Sauropods Drank Together At Freshwater Lagoon

The footprints were discovered on the Isle of Skye and provide a rare look into the Middle Jurassic.

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