Isle of Wight fossil 'sitting in a drawer for 100 years' reveals new dinosaur MORE DANGEROUS to humans than a T-rex

A skull fragment found on the Isle of Wight over a century ago and stored unexamined at the Natural History Museum has been identified as a brand-new dinosaur species — the first of its fearsome group ever found in Europe. UCL lead researcher Dr Cassius Morrison says Invictibellatrix amberina, a feathered, tiger-sized predator with 20cm curved claws, would have actively hunted humans, unlike the T-rex, which would have ignored us as too small to bother with. The fossil was originally dug from a cliff on the island's south-west coast by amateur palaeontologist Reginald Walter Tooley and acquired by the museum in 1924.

The creature, whose name means 'unconquered female warrior', roamed Britain about 120 million years ago and was a close cousin of the T-rex.

Morrison called it 'a real mystery' that the fossil was overlooked for nearly a century — and warned the Isle of Wight may be hiding many more undiscovered species.

Invictibellatrix belonged to the megaraptorans, described as the most mysterious large meat-eating dinosaurs, with almost no fossils found worldwide until now.