Here is what the page “Isle of Wight fossil reveals Europe's first megaraptoran dinosaur, a tiger-sized predator ” contains. A new species of dinosaur discovered on the Isle of Wight is Europe's first known megaraptoran, a group of agile, two-legged carnivores with distinctive long claws. The predator, roughly the size of a large tiger, was identified by a UCL-led team from a fossil and described in a paper published in Royal Society Open Science. Megaraptorans were previously known mainly from South America and Australia, so this find extends their geographic range to Europe and sheds light on dinosaur distribution during the Early Cretaceous.
The Isle of Wight is already famous for its rich fossil beds, and this discovery adds to its reputation as a key site for understanding dinosaur evolution. The new species provides crucial evidence for how megaraptorans spread across continents and adapted to different environments. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.