Step back in time as we unearth Vectipelta barretti, a previously unknown ankylosaur, found on the Isle of Wight! This early Cretaceous dweller reshapes our understanding of dinosaur evolution, highlighting a fascinating Asia-Europe journey. 🦖
Both dinosaurs had vegetarian diets and sported characteristic bony plates along their back and flanks and a large club-like tail.
"Myself and some of the other authors on this study have been mentored or supervised by Paul for most of our careers, and it was notable to us that Paul hadn't had a dinosaur named after him yet. He's hugely influential in vertebrate paleontology, and he's a world-leading authority on dinosaurs," says Susannah Maidment, a study author and paleontologist at the Natural History Museum, in a press release.
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