When Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the Scottish highlands after a defeat in the Battle of Culodine, it may have been through the steps of the huge dinosaurs that eat meat.
The newly discovered impressions at Prince Charles’s point on Sky Island, where the young protester is said to have been demolished in 1746, and revealed that Megalosrat, meat -eating in T -Rex, and the enormous SAROPODs that were collected on the site when it was a nastish water lake.
The researchers analyzed 131 The effects of fossilized feet on the beach covered with rocks He rebuilt the paths made by animals across the scene 167 meters ago. The overlapping tracks indicate that the dinosaurs drank in the lake almost the same time.
“The effects of the feet are mostly wearing, but there are some wonderful examples that maintain the wonderful features that offer these dinosaurs to the maximum,” said Tun Blixley, the lead in the project at Edinburgh University. “It is surprising that they have not been found yet.”
The length of the most amazing effects is about 45 cm and belongs to the three designed Megalosaur. The effects of Sauropod feet, which are round and slightly larger, were previously mistaken in fish burrows.
Using a drone, scientists have taken thousands of overlapping photos of the adjacent coastal line of the farmer distant in the peninsula. These have been addressed to rebuild the digital 3D models of the effects of the feet. Their report is It was published in Plos One.
“The rocks that history to the middle of the Guardians are very rare, which is annoying to us because we were a time when dinosaurs quickly develop into a variety of shapes,” said Blackley. “When we find dinosaurs’ imprint sites like Prince Charles’s Point, we can look at how these dinosaurs interact with their environment and how they were distributed as well.”
Feets were created when dinosaurs pass through the shallow water lake. Over the course of millions of years, the publications have been preserved on the vast and extended sandstone platform that extends to the sea today.
“It seems that someone has pressed the temporary stop button,” said Blackley. “It is a surreal feeling that I see these effects as feet with my own eyes, to be able to put my hands on the sole of these feet.
The researchers discovered the first tracks on the site five years ago, but the matter made consecutive trips to detect the full range of impressions preserved in the rock. On one of the recent visits, the team found what appears to be a fingerprint of clothes inside the Sorobod road, indicating that the predator was walking in the footsteps of the largest monster. “There is definitely more effects that can be found,” said Blackley.
“It is amazing to think that when the English forces follow Prince Charlie, he may have been following the effects of dinosaurs to safety in Sky,” said Steve Bruce, a professor of archeology and development in Edinburgh. “He did not know what the dinosaurs were, because the word was not invented at that time, and of course he had many other urgent things in his mind, but I wonder if he had looked down and saw these large holes in the rock with the fingers and fingers of the toe and wondered what it might.”
