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Jess Thomson

166 million-year-old fossil found on Isle of Skye belongs to pony-size dinosaur from Jurassic

Elgol Dinosaur walking through shallow water in a forest (artist impression).

A fossil first discovered over 50 years ago has finally been identified as the remains of a pony-sized dinosaur that lived about 166 million years ago.

The fossil was spotted at the base of a cliff on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1973, but it was not collected by paleontologists for another 45 years due to its tricky location.

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