A fossil that was first discovered over 50 years ago has finally been identified as a dinosaur that lived around 166 million ...

Analysis of the bone structure indicates the Elgol dinosaur, which would have been roughly the size of a pony, was at least ...

A fossilized dinosaur skeleton, first spotted in 1973 on the Isle of Skye, has finally been excavated and studied, revealing ...

The fossil of a pony-sized dinosaur has been revealed for the first time - more than 50 years after it was first spotted in a ...

Known as the Elgol dinosaur, the fossil has been recovered from a cliff face more than 50 years after first being discovered ...

On the Isle of Skye in Scotland, researchers extracted fossils from a cliff, revealing a 166-million-year-old ornithopod ...

is the most complete dinosaur skeleton found to date in Scotland. The Isle of Skye has become a focal point for Jurassic discoveries in recent years. Other finds include the world's largest ...

Researchers have successfully extracted a fossil first spotted over half a century ago and formally identified it as a Jurassic dinosaur.

The fossils were originally found in 1973 but not extracted until 2018, researchers said. Panciroli, et al (2025) Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh In ...

raising hopes for further discoveries on Skye. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic period, the Elgol dinosaur is fragmented. Researchers have identified parts of the spine, ribs, and a hip bone ...

A Jurassic dinosaur fossil has been extracted from the base of a cliff on the Isle of Skye where it was found more than 50 ...