Vectiraptor greeni, a new fierce predatory dinosaur from the Isle of Wight in the U.K. (Credit: Gabriel Ugueto) BATH, England - Paleontologists discovered fossils from over 100 million years ago of an older, "more heavily built" relative of the famed velociraptor dinosaur.The new bird-like dinosaur, named Vectiraptor greeni after amateur paleontologist Mick Green who first discovered its bones on the Isle of Wight in Great Britain, was about the size of a wolf — around 3 meters (10 feet) long from nose to tail, researchers said.
The dinosaur would have prowled through forests that covered the land in the Early Cretaceous geological period, about 125 million years ago.