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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample Science editor

Dinosaur tracks uncovered at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s refuge

A pair of theropod footprints that remain at the former freshwater lagoon on the Isle of Skye.
A pair of theropod footprints that remain at the former freshwater lagoon on the Isle of Skye. Photograph: Paige E. dePolo

When Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the Scottish Highlands after defeat at the Battle of Culloden, his route may have crossed the fossilised footsteps of massive meat-eating dinosaurs, researchers say.

Newly discovered impressions at Prince Charles’s Point on the Isle of Skye, where the Young Pretender is said to have hunkered down in 1746, reveal that megalosaurs, the carnivorous ancestors of the T rex, and enormous plant-eating sauropods gathered at the site when it was a shallow freshwater lagoon.

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