A new genus of bird-like dinosaur with huge slashing talons and finely serrated teeth that was an ancient relative of the Velociraptor has been found on the Isle of Wight.
The creature has been named ‘Vectiraptor greeni’ in honour of local collector Mike Green, who found its fossils at Compton Bay, on the island’s south coast, in 2004.
Palaeontologists from the Universities of Bath and Portsmouth who studied the find said that it was 10 feet long in life —