All the latest updates on the world of Isle of Wight dinosaurs!
One of the best-preserved dinosaurs ever found in the UK has been unearthed on the Isle of Wight. Named Comptonatus chasei, the new species cements the island’s reputation as one of the world’s most important places to study dinosaurs. The newest member of the Iguanodon family is offering new insights into the UK’s ancient …
Scientists have discovered a new species of small plant-eating dinosaur on the Isle of Wight in southern England (UK). The new species, Vectidromeus insularis, is the second member of the hypsilophodont family to be found on the island, suggesting that Europe had its own family of small herbivorous dinosaurs, distinct from those found in Asia …
A new armoured dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was discovered in the Wessex formation on the Isle of Wight and represents the first armoured dinosaur from the dinosaur Isle to be described in 142 years. Lead author Stuart Pond …
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
