British fossil hunters find bones of new dinosaur species, cousin to T.Rex

A dinosaur bone is held upon its discovery on the Isle of Wight, Britain, in this still image taken from video. Photo: Reuters

Four bones found on a beach on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast, belong to a new species of theropod dinosaur, the group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex, researchers at the University of Southampton said recently.

The new dinosaur, which has been named Vectaerovenator inopinatus, lived in the Cretaceous period 115 million years ago and was estimated to have been up to four metres long, the palaeontologists said.