With 149 bones total, it is the most complete dinosaur skeleton to be found in the UK in a hundred years.
About 125 million years ago, a massive dinosaur—now known as Comptonatus chasei—roofed southern England. It would have weighed as much as an African elephant.
It was not until around 7,000 years ago that the island of Wight broke away from the mainland.
Lockwood,PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth “This was probably a herding animal, so if any of the predators on the floodplains spooked it, huge herds of these massive dinosaurs might have been thundering around,” said Jeremy Lockwood.
period.period.The dinosaur is a member of the iguanodontian genus of herbivorous dinosaurs, which are huge, bulky animals that palaeontologists have refer to as the “cows of the Cretaceous period”.
Nick Chase, a fossil hunter, made the discovery and tragically passed away from cancer just before the COVID-19 epidemic. He is honored with the species name.
The specimen could not be ready for analysis for several years, according to Mr. Lockwood and his colleagues.
“I started examining the specimen six years ago and described it as part of my five-year PhD thesis,” the man stated.
