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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Matthew Weaver

Isle of Wight fossilised remains identified as new dinosaur species

Vectipelta barretti
Vectipelta barretti is the second armoured dinosaur to be found on the island. Photograph: Stuart Pond/NHM/PA

Fossilised remains from the Isle of Wight have been identified as a new dinosaur species that has been named after a palaeontologist at the London’s Natural History Museum.

It belongs to a group of plant-eating dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs that was found in the 1980s on the island’s Wessex formation – a geological feature dating to between 145m and 66m years ago.

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