After Sauropoda dinosaur, flesh-eating dinosaur found in Scotland's Isle of Skye
In a Scottish island called windswept island which boosts red deer, puffins and many more things, researchers have unearthed a site of carnivorous dinosaurs which existed 170 million years ago.
Marks of the flesh-eating dinosaurs were found on the Isle of Skye (This connects to Scotland's northwest coast by bridge). The remains were as big as a car tyre. There is a possibility that the dinosaurs roamed the island during the Middle Jurassic.
In a study published recently by University of Edinburgh in a Scottish Journal of Geology is based on a huge array of tracks discovered in the north of Skye. Earlier research conducted by the same group in 2015 said that there are nearly hundreds of footprints of dinosaurs which are enormous, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs known as sauropods. But this recent study has proved that there was another meat-eater dinosaur.
One of the authors of the study, Dr Stephen Brusatte said, "Anytime we find new dinosaurs it is exciting, especially in Scotland because the record is so limited and also because these are Middle Jurassic dinosaurs and there are very few dinosaur fossils of that age anywhere in the world."
While mapping the site with their drones and other camera equipment showed that more than 50 dinosaur footprints. The study also revealed that the creature would have weighed about a tonne and five or six metres in length.
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First published: 3 April 2018, 13:41 IST