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About 50 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The footprints were made by theropods, which walked on two legs like the T-Rex, and long-necked sauropods. The tracks date back 170 million years to the Jurassic period, when the Brothers’ Point area was a muddy lagoon.
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Caihong jugi means “rainbow with the big crest”, and it’s the name of a duck-sized dinosaur found in China. The detailed fossil showed a Jurassic period dinosaur covered in shaggy plumage with a long skull and fan-shaped tail. Preserved melanosomes like a hummingbird’s mean it had brightly colored iridescent feathers!
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