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A dinosaur unearthed on the Isle of Wight may be the largest land predator that ever roamed Europe, say scientists.

Palaeontologists said they have found parts of the skeleton of the dinosaur, which lived during the Cretaceous Period

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The fossilised bones include large pelvic and tail vertebrae were dug up near Compton Chine on the southwest coast and are believed to date back 125 million years

Fossilized bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England's Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin of the biggest carnivorous dinosaur species on record.

Paris (AFP) - A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur, discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters, was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe, scientists said on Thursday.

Prehistoric bones belonging to two-legged, crocodile-faced ‘White Rock spinosaurid’ were discovered on the island

The crocodile-faced spinosaurid lived 125 million years ago and would have been 10 metres long.

Louise Turner says her family booked up believing they were staying in the Isle of Wight

A family holiday went wrong when they arrived at Newport on the Isle of Wight for a holiday - only to discover that it wasn't the location they'd actually booked

The family believed they had booked a stay on the Isle of Wight when they should have gone to South Wales