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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Nick Forbes

MYSTERIOUS: Secrets of dinosaur gathering revealed by newly discovered footprints | Mind Blowing Facts

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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