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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Nick Forbes

Secrets of dinosaur gathering revealed by newly discovered footprints

An artist rendition of meat eating megalosaurs and plant eating sauropods mingling at a site on Prince Charles's Point on the Isle of Skye - (Tone Blakesley/Scott Reid/University of Edinburgh/PA Wire)

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye reveal herbivores and carnivores coexisted at freshwater lagoons some 167 million years ago.

A University of Edinburgh team analysed 131 footprints at Prince Charles’s Point, on the island’s Trotternish Peninsula, uncovering evidence of a diverse ecosystem.

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