Armored dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight

There are some places in the world that are just magnets for dinosaurs—Utah’s Cedar Mountain Formation, the fossil beds of Liaoning, China, Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park. In the UK, one such hot spot is the Isle of Wight, a 148 square mile island now known as a popular summer holiday spot. Nevertheless, the tiny island is home to numerous dinosaur discoveries, including Europe’s largest prehistoric predator and a tyrannosaurid that lived 60 million years before the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex.  

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