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A 200 Million Year Old Scottish Dinosaurs Left Footprints!

The Jurassic period was around 200 million years ago. It was a time of significant change and mass extinction. I think the mass extinction was triggered by massive dinosaurs farting, which caused a destructive climate change, which triggered the supercontinent called Pangaea to start breaking apart and forming the contents we know today. Dry inland deserts became flooded forming temperate wetlands and tropical forests. From the fossils found, they are rare; mammals started rapidly changing. Because of the rapid change of climate and land mass, it was either adapt or die out for life here on earth.

Footprints Found In The Isle Of Skye

Not only were mammals adapting and changing so were groups of dinosaurs like tyrannosaurs, stegosaurs, birds, and reptiles. I don’t think the farts of dinosaurs caused climate change and the splitting of contents. My guess is as good as anyone else’s guesses regarding our climate change caused by cow farts, and car exhausts that are claimed to be melting our northern and southern ice caps.

The dinosaurs left footprints were left on the shoreline of a Scottish island called the Isle of Skye. The prints were (2ft 3.5) across, scientists suggest the footprints were left by plant-eating sauropods. There are only a few sauropod footprints from the Middle Jurassic era found around the world from England, Portugal, Mexico, Morocco and the US.

When dinosaurs trekked across what is now Skye, it was not long after the supercontinent Pangaea had begun to split apart. At the time, the land had rivers, lagoons, and beaches, and it was much closer to the equator. “This was a subtropical kind of paradise world, probably kind of like Florida or Spain today,” Brusatte tells The Guardian. “[These prints] were made in a shallow lagoon – dinosaurs walking in very shallow water.”

The Guardian

Researchers measured, photographed and analyzed about 50 footprints in a tidal area at Brothers' Point, Rubha nam Brathairean, the headland on Skye's Trotterni found fossilized footprints were they were made, called “in situ” because they can get an idea how the animals lived. The footprints were made by the Breviparopus and Parabrontopdus groups which were primitive sauropods with narrow hips and thumb claws front feet and straight digits on their back feet. Researchers used drones set with cameras to catch images and help model of the dinosaur fossilized footprints.

It’s impossible to know the exact species of dinosaur from footprints alone, but the sauropods who made them likely measured up to (49ft 2.5) 15 meters in length and weighed more than 10,000 pounds. These were some of the largest terrestrial animals of the Middle Jurassic era. The tracks laid by the theropods were made by several medium-to-large specimens, about five to six meters long and weighing a ton.

Gizmodo Jurrassic Era

As I wrote in my previous article about gravity and the dinosaur paradox scientist believed sauropods were too heavy to live on land and spent most of their time in water deep enough to support their huge bulk. The largest land animal today is an elephant, and they move slowly because of their bulk. Plus there is the problem with blood pressure with that long neck. To solve the problem scientist had suggested the dinosaurs never raised their head above their heart because they found dinosaurs moved on land away from deep water when new evidence was found.

With this new finding in the Isle of Skye, everyone is scrambling trying to figure out how these large animals moved around the land as well as “shallow” swampy areas.

The study carried out by the University of Edinburgh, Staffin Museum and Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published in the Scottish Journal of Geology. It was supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society, and subsidiary funding from the Association of Women Geologists, Derek and Maureen Moss, Edinburgh Zoo and Edinburgh Geological Society.Paige dePolo, who led the study, researched while an inaugural student in the University's Research Master's degree programme in paleontology and geobiology.

BBC News

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