Remains suggest spinosaur, a crocodile-faced hunter, measured over 10 metres from snout to tail
Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight have unearthed the remains of what may be the largest predatory dinosaur ever found in Europe.
Pieces of bone belonging to a massive spinosaur, a two-legged crocodile-faced beast that lived 125m years ago, suggest the land-based hunter measured over 10 metres from snout to tail. Researchers discovered vertebrae and parts of the pelvis and a limb bone in rock eroded from a cliff that had tumbled on to the beach at Compton Bay in the south-west of the Isle of Wight.
“From the bones that we’ve got, this animal may be the largest predatory dinosaur that has ever been found in Europe,” said Dr Neil Gostling, a palaeobiologist at the University of Southampton. “It’s straight out of Compton.”, with fish making up a substantial proportion of their diet. Whether they caught fish or scavenged on them after they washed up on shorelines is unclear.
The discovery follows previous work on spinosaurs by the University of Southampton team, which reported the discovery of
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