By looking closer at the direction of the footprints and the gaits of these ancient giants, the team believe that the ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

long-necked sauropods during an important time in their evolution. “On Skye, these dinosaurs clearly preferred shallowly submerged lagoon environments over subaerially exposed mudflats.” ...

As for whether the prey species got close to the meat-eating dinosaurs during their water breaks? “That would be a disaster for the sauropods if that happened,” Blakesley tells CNN.

The footprints were made 167 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic period, an important time in dinosaur evolution ... Blakesley said. The sauropods were “big lumbering giants which ...

most likely left by dinosaurs casually milling about at slightly different times. This site supports previous evidence that Jurassic sauropods frequented Scottish lagoons. However, this site ...

from a dinosaur clade called sauropods mingling at a shallow freshwater lagoon environment on Scotland's Isle of Skye about 167 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. — Reuters It was the ...

(CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated ... Blakesley said. The sauropods were “big lumbering giants which would have plodded along ...