All the latest updates on the world of Isle of Wight dinosaurs!
New research by a team of scientists, including PhD student Jeremy Lockwood from the Natural History Museum, has identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunter, a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million years ago. The remains comprising of several bones uncovered on the Isle of Wight, …
Meet Vectiraptor, the latest dinosaur recovered from the Isle of Wight. Vectiraptor greeni (Green’s Vectis Thief, after Mick Green, island fossil hunter who discovered the original fossils in 2004) was a theropod dinosaur similar in size and shape to Deinonychus, the inspiration for the Jurassic park “Velociraptors” (actual Velociraptors were much smaller, but at time …
Scientists from the Natural History Museum and the University of Portsmouth have described a new genus and species of dinosaur from a specimen found on the Isle of Wight, indicating that the diversity of dinosaurs in the Early Cretaceous of the UK was much greater than previously thought. Natural History Museum and University of Portsmouth scientists describe a new species of dinosaur Discoveries of …
A new study led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton suggests that bones found on the Isle of Wight belong to two new species of spinosaurid, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs closely related to the giant Spinosaurus. Their unusual, crocodile-like skulls helped the group expand their diets, allowing them hunt prey on both …
Scientists in Southampton believe four bones recently found on the Isle of Wight belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur
