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 ...

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey ... the footprints suggested meat-eating theropods and plant-eating sauropods habitually spent time in lagoons. They said subsequent ...

The large sauropods were likely the height of two to three elephants and moved at half the walking speed of a human, about 1.5 mph. Both types of dinosaurs would have had to have enough weight to ...