According to a recent study published in the journal Systematic Palaeontology, a fossil of a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the Earth approximately 125 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of Wight, England.
Dinosaur Comptonatus Chasei. (Source: BBC)
Scientists believe that this is the most complete fossil found in the British Isles in a century.
The fossil excavation was accompanied by Jeremy Lockwood, a researcher at the University of Portsmouth, who noted that the Comptonatus Chasei dinosaur weighed around 900 kg and may have been a livestock type.
The fossil, consisting of 149 bones, was discovered by the late collector Nick Chase in the cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England, in 2013.
It was subsequently named Comptonatus Chasei in memory of this late collector.
Researcher Lockwood emphasized that this fossil helps scientists gain further insights into the various dinosaur species that lived in England during the early Cretaceous period.
He also added that a fossil of a larger carnivorous dinosaur than any previously known species across Europe was found on the Isle of Wight in 2022.
This dinosaur is also confirmed to have lived during the Cretaceous period.
