It's very strange that traces of dinosaurs found in Scotland are all centred on the misty Isle of Skye. Every cool new information about the Jurassic period is found centred on the Isle of Skye, and it holds the most treasures that interest many working in paleontology.
All of the dinosaurs found in Skye are of the Middle Jurassic. Skye is a time capsule, with multiple dinosaur species bones and footprints all over. They found some complete dinosaur skeletons there. Isle of Skye has folklore and legends about creatures such as dragons called Beithir. One lives deep underground beneath Dunvegan Castle. There are the fighting dragons on the rocky hills of Quiraing. Deadly dragons haunt the Loch Coruisk.
The gathering of footprints belong to so many types of dinosaurs that scientists call it a "Dino Disco"! The Jurassic dance floor is a pattern which reveals that Skye was once a tropical lagoon connected to a larger continent. There's sauropods, stegosaurus, theropods including relations of T-rex. There's even the fossil of Dearc sgiathanach ("winged reptile" in Gaelic), which is the biggest pterosaur on record.
Links: For more about Dinosaurs found on the island of Skye, you can get the book Jurassic Skye by authors Sarah White and Dugald Ross.
BBC covered "40 years of discoveries on Skye".
Highland Experience shows where to find dinosaur prints.
Just for fun, Discovering Kelpies article "the Faery flag of Dunvegan Castle".
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