Eilean nan Dineasair

Skye as you’ve never seen it before - a subtropical landscape of beaches, lagoons...and dinosaurs! 170 million years ago, Skye was a stomping ground for dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes, including theropods that later evolved into the famous T-rex, huge, long-necked sauropods that were the largest animals in the world at the time and plated ornithischians such as early stegosaurs.

The Middle Jurassic was an important period in the evolution of dinosaurs and Skye is one of the few places in the world where fossils from that era have been found. This programme visits sites across the island where dinosaur footprints and bones have been discovered, and talks to the experts who found and studied them. At Staffin Museum, dinosaur and fossil expert and enthusiast Dugie Ross tells us about his unique collection.

An t-Eilean Sgitheanach ann an seadh nach fhaca sibh riamh – dùthaich bhog bhruthainneach, le tràighean, linneachan mara bhlàtha – agus dìneasairean.

Ceud trì fichead sa deich bliadhna bho shean, bha iomadh seòrsa dìneasair air an Eilein Sgitheanaich. Nam measg bha theropods – sinnsrean an t-Rex, sauropods mhòra an amhaich fhada, na beathaichean bu mhotha air an t-saoghal aig an àm, agus ornithischians – stegosaurs sa leithid – le leacan air an druim.

Bha meadhan na linne Jurassic cudromach ann an leasachadh gnè nan dìneasair. 'S e fìor bheag a dh’àitichean san t-saoghal – an t-Eilean Sgitheanach nam measg – san d’fhuaireadh fosailean bho mheadhan an Jurassic. Tha’m prògram seo a’tadhal air na làraich far an do lorgadh cnàmhan is làraich spòg, agus a’seanchas riuthasan a chruinnich agus a rannsaich iad. Aig taigh-tasgaidh Stafain tha eòlaiche as an àite, Dùghall Ros, ag innse dhuinn mun chruinneachadh air leth a th’aca.

In Gaelic with English subtitles