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How Bonnie Prince Charlie ran in footsteps of dinoasaurs as he fled Culloden

This illustration shows a meat-eating dinosaur (right) from the dinosaur family called megalosaurs and a plant-eating dinosaur (left) from a dinosaur clade called sauropods mingling at a shallow freshwater lagoon environment on Scotland's Isle of Skye about 167 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

This illustration shows a meat-eating dinosaur (right) from the dinosaur family called megalosaurs and a plant-eating dinosaur (left) from a dinosaur clade called sauropods mingling at a shallow freshwater lagoon environment on Scotland's Isle of Skye about 167 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.

Sarah Knapton

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Bonnie Prince Charlie ran in the footsteps of dinosaurs when he fled English troops during the doomed Jacobite rebellion, scientists have found.

Fossil footprints from several meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs were discovered at Prince Charles’s Point in the Isle of Skye, where “the Young Pretender” sought shelter with Flora MacDonald in June 1746.

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