170 million year old paw prints of dinosaurs discovered in Scotland
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Geologists have found dozens of rare paw prints of dinosaurs off the Isle of Skye coast in Scotland. The 170 million-year-old fossils provide an important insight into the Jura, the researchers write in the Scottish Journal of Geology. "The more we search on Isle of Skye, the more dinosaur footprints we find," says Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh.
"The more we search on Isle of Skye, the more dinosaur footprints we find," says Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh. A year earlier, the same team also found paw prints of dinosaurs on the island. Brusatte: '' The new find shows two types of dinosaurs - the long-nested cousins of the Brontosaurus and the sharp-toothed cousins of T. Rex - that hung around a shallow lagoon, at a time when Scotland was much warmer and dinosaurs marching to world domination started.'' The discovery is of great importance because there are only finds from the Middle Jurassic in a few places in the world, writes the University of Edinburgh.
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