Scientists have uncovered the Isle of Wight's second armored dinosaur.
, is particularly important because it reopens the book on the development of ankylosaur dinosaurs in the region. Previously, only one ankylosaur, thewas first discovered in 1865, and up until now, the“For virtually 142 years, all ankylosaur remains from the Isle of Wight have been assigned to Polacanthus foxii, a famous dinosaur from the island,” Stuart Pond, a researcher at London’s National History Museum department of earth sciences and lead author of the study,.
The newly described dinosaur has a very different pelvis and distinct neck and back vertebrae compared to the Polacanthus.
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