"New Armored Dinosaur Species Discovered on Isle of Wight and Named After Museum Professor"

A new species of armored dinosaur, Vectipelta barretti, has been discovered on the Isle of Wight and named after Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. The fossilized remains show differences from the previously known ankylosaur from the Isle of Wight, Polacanthus foxii, and suggest that dinosaurs moved freely from Asia to Europe in the Early Cretaceous. The discovery sheds light on ankylosaur diversity within the Wessex formation and Early Cretaceous England, which is crucial to understanding if a mass extinction occurred at the end of the Jurassic and how life recovered.