Isle of Wight fossilised remains identified as new dinosaur species

Creature has been named Vectipelta barretti after Prof Paul Barrett of London’s Natural History Museum

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.