Over 100 Middle Jurassic tracks from Scotland

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Tone Blakesley, who recently described 131 dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. The tracks include those made by Megalosaurus and Cetiosaurus (or close relatives) and Tone made an accompanying documentary for the paper.

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Dinosaur of the day Ornithodesmus, a dinosaur that was first thought to be a bird based on its hip bones (sacrum) and later considered to be a pterosaur.

Interview with Tone Blakesley, a Master's graduate University of Edinburgh and lead author of a new paper about 131 dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye in Scotland

In dinosaur news this week:

Tone Blakesley's new paper describing a Middle Jurassic lagoon preserved in modern day Scotland
The documentary of the tracks that Tone made to accompany the paper

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0:41.0	Hello and welcome to I Know Dino.
0:44.0	Keep up with the latest dinosaur discoveries and science with us.
0:44.8	I'm Garrett.
0:45.5	And I'm Sabrina.
0:51.5	And today in our 537th episode, we've got an interview.
0:53.7	It's been a little while since we had an interview.
1:00.2	This week it's with Tone Blake's Lee about some exciting dinosaur footprints that he found in Scotland.
1:01.2	Yes.
1:06.3	We also have Dinosaur of the Day, Ornithodesmus, the Birdlink Dinosaur.
1:17.4	And our fun fact, which is that for 20 years, a boulder full of dinosaur footprint sat in the front of a school in Australia, keeping that dinosaur footprint theme going.
1:21.3	So it sat there for 20 years or was there for 20 years before someone found it?
1:24.4	Oh, no, it got moved there on purpose.
1:24.8	Okay.
1:46.5	I was wondering if it was just sitting there for 20 years. So then someone was like, wait, there's a dinosaur footprint on that. Kind of. Okay. We'll wait till the fun fact, getting ahead of ourselves. But before we get into all that, as always, we'd like to thank some of our patrons. And this week, we have 10 existing patrons to thank. And they were randomly selected via random number generator and they are Geraldine, Dino Dork, Risa, Thane Spino Lover, Shane Kylosaurus,
1:55.2	or Shan Kylosaurus, probably Shane Kylosaurus, Indy, Evelyn and Frankie, E. Ray, Rachel, and Benadoccus.
2:06.8	Oh, excellent names.
2:08.9	Yes, Benadoplaticus is an updated name. Fantastic choice.
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