A new species of plant-eating dinosaur - that weighed as much as an African elephant - roamed the Isle of Wight around 125 million years ago, a new study suggests.

The specimen, with 149 bones in total, is believed to be the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a 100 years.

Comptonatus chasei, named after fossil hunter Nick Chase and the place it was found, belongs to a group of plant-eating dinosaurs known as iguanodontians.

The large, bulky creatures are often described as the "cows of the Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago)" by palaeontologists and were hunted by the meat-eating raptors.

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