A new study reveals that the Isle of Skye was once a vibrant environment for dinosaurs, including ancestors of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh uncovered dinosaur footprints dating back 167 million years at Prince Charles's Point, indicating that carnivorous megalosaurs and herbivorous sauropods cohabited shallow freshwater lagoons. The findings suggest that these creatures preferred lagoonal environments over drier mudflats, offering crucial insights into their ecological behaviors during the Middle Jurassic period.
The footprints at Prince Charles's Point provide a fascinating insight into the behaviours and environmental distributions of meat-eating theropods and plant-eating, long-necked sauropods during an important time in their evolution.
Analysis of the multi-directional tracks and walking gaits suggests the prehistoric beasts milled around the lagoon's margins, similar to how animals congregate around watering holes today.
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