A new species of plant-eating dinosaur that was as big as a male American bison roamed the Isle of Wight around 125 million years ago, analysis suggests.
The specimen, unearthed in the cliffs of Compton Bay, represents the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a century with 149 bones in total, researchers said.
Jeremy Lockwood, a PhD student at the University of Portsmouth, said:"This animal would have been around a tonne , about as big as a large male American bison. Mr Lockwood said it is unclear why this hip bone, found at the base of the abdomen, was so big, but added:"It was probably for muscle attachments, which might mean its mode of locomotion was a bit different, or it could have been to support the stomach contents more effectively, or even have been involved in how the animal breathed, but all of these theories are somewhat speculative."
He said:"Its lower jaw has a straight bottom edge, whereas most iguanodontians have a jaw that curves downwards." Comptonatus was first discovered in 2013 by Mr Chase, who died of cancer just before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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