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 Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 2:54 am Post subject: Giant Prints Show Ancient Life on Remote Scots Isle |
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http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=1375834
Giant Prints Show Ancient Life on Remote Scots Isle
August 27, 2002 07:09 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The tiny Scottish island of Skye may be remote and out of the way for today\'s tourists, but 165 million years ago it seems to have been a pretty busy place.
Local people and scientists have found 15 sets of giant footprints left by huge meat-eating dinosaurs on a beach on the east of the island, which lies off Scotland\'s northwest coast.
The prints -- each showing three vast toes formed into an arrow-head shape -- have been hailed as the biggest and best ever found in Scotland.
Scientists at the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow are still unsure exactly what kind of beasts left the tracks, but think it may have been something like a megalosaurus -- a meat-eating dinosaur measuring up to 10 meters long.
\"These prints are particularly important because they are very large, they are the largest ones we\'ve found,\" Dr. Neil Clark of the museum told BBC radio on Tuesday. \"They are also still in the rocks where they were made.\"
The first print was discovered by Cathie Booth, a local hotel owner. \"I was just taking the dog out for a walk...and I came across a single footstep on the rock, and brought it home for my husband to have a look at it,\" she told BBC radio.
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