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Nick Forbes

Dinosaur predator and prey drank together from lagoons on Isle of Skye – study

Meat-eating megalosaurs and plant-eating sauropods drank from lagoons together 167 million years ago, a new study suggests (Tone Blakesley and Scott Reid/PA) -

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye show herbivores and carnivores drank from freshwater lagoons together 167 million years ago, scientists have said.

A team at the University of Edinburgh analysed 131 dinosaur footprints at Prince Charles’s Point on the island’s Trotternish Peninsula.

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