A new species of ankylosaur has been named after Museum scientist Professor Paul Barrett.
The remains of the armoured dinosaur now called Vectipelta barretti were discovered on the Isle of Wight, and hint at a greater diversity of the animals that lived in what is now the UK some 140 million years ago.
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