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Fossil footsteps of dinosaurs found at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie's refuge
The Guardian
|April 03, 2025
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' 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 T rex, and enormous plant-eating sauropods gathered at the site when it was a shallow freshwater lagoon.
Researchers analysed 131 fossilised footprints at the shore and reconstructed the tracks the animals made 167m years ago. Overlapping tracks suggest that the dinosaurs drank at the lagoon around the same time.
This story is from the April 03, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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