Dinosaur predator and prey drank together from lagoons on Isle of Skye – study

The researchers said the site provides a “fascinating insight” into the environmental preferences and behaviours of dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic period

The footprints were once considered by geologists to have been resting burrows of fish. File picture.

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye show herbivores and carnivores drank from freshwater lagoons together 167 million years ago, scientists have said.

A team at the University of Edinburgh analysed 131 dinosaur footprints at Prince Charles’s Point on the island’s Trotternish Peninsula.