A group of palaeontologists in Scotland have extracted the most complete dinosaur fossil in the country, on the Isle of Skye.

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It dates all the way back to the Middle Jurassic – a period from which dinosaur fossils are notoriously hard to come by, especially in Scotland.

The team’s led by Dr Elsa Panciroli, who says: “It’s really exciting and significant just to find a dinosaur that isn’t just one single bone or even just some footprints, but it’s multiple bones from one animal!”

Previously the title of “the first dinosaur fossil discovered in Scotland” was thought to belong to a bone found in 1992, but it all changed after Elsa found a diary of a palaeontologist who spotted and sketched down the fossil in 1973, but didn’t collect it.

And here’s how this treasure hunt happened!

Video journalist and presenter: Mykyta Osadchyi

00:00 A great rock and a greater researcher
00:31 This fossil is much older than T-Rex
01:16 So what is this dinosaur?
01:47 How did this dinosaur actually look?
02:15 How Elsa found the 1973 diary
03:14 How they extracted the dinosaur fossil
03:50 Why Scotland is so deprived of fossils
04:30 What does the fossil help us understand?
05:02 Why does the fossil look so broken?
05:31 What sound would this dinosaur make?
06:18 Bye bye

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