A giant crocodile-faced
dinosaur, discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain’s best fossil hunters
Most of the bones of the
two-legged spinosaurid were found by the late local collector Nick Chase
Researchers at the University of
Southampton then used the few bones available to identify what they have called the “White Rock spinosaurid
“This was a huge animal,
exceeding 10 metres in length and judging from some of the dimensions
While admitting it would be
better to have more bones, Barker said the “numbers don’t lie -- it is bigger than the biggest known specimen”
Thomas Richard Holtz,
agreed that the new find “does seem to be larger” than a huge predator whose fossilised remains discovered in Portugal.
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