On Staffin Beach
I’m standing on the beach at Staffin and trying to imagine what it was like here 165 million years ago. That’s because I’m very near a cluster of footprints on a bed of sandstone on the beach that were made all those years ago. To put that in context, the gabbro rocks of the Cuillin on Syke were formed about 60 million years ago, and they were carved by the glaciers of the last ice age on Skye just 11,000 years ago. I really cannot get my head around that, but clearly the landscape looked very different then, the climate too.
The dinosaurs that passed here were Ornithopods, herbivorous creatures who walked on two legs. They, along with the carnivorous Megalosaurus and the omnivorous Cetiosaurus and Stegosaurus, contribute to Skye's reputation as the 'dinosaur isle'.
On Staffin Beach
I’m standing on the beach at Staffin and trying to imagine what it was like here 165 million years ago. That’s because I’m very near a cluster of footprints on a bed of sandstone on the beach that were made all those years ago. To put that in context, the gabbro rocks of the Cuillin on Syke were formed about 60 million years ago, and they were carved by the glaciers of the last ice age on Skye just 11,000 years ago. I really cannot get my head around that, but clearly the landscape looked very different then, the climate too.
The dinosaurs that passed here were Ornithopods, herbivorous creatures who walked on two legs. They, along with the carnivorous Megalosaurus and the omnivorous Cetiosaurus and Stegosaurus, contribute to Skye's reputation as the 'dinosaur isle'.