By Lauren Beavis
A huge dinosaur footprint dating back 127 million years has been found on a beach.
Paleontologist Joe Thompson, 23, a fossil guide with Wight Coast Fossils, spotted the print at Shepherd's Chine on the Isle of Wight.
Joe says the one-meter-long footprint, with three toes, revealed itself after storms stripped the beach of shingle.
The recent Bristol University graduate said: "I was walking on Shepherd's Chine beach, looking for any fossils or dinosaur bones I could find.
"I had been walking for an hour or two and hadn't found anything - so was a bit down in the dumps.
"But then I looked down and could see one of the toes in the clay, thinking it could be a footprint, I uncovered it and discovered a pretty big footprint of an Iguanodon.
"It is high up in the sequence - which means it is a bit younger than other footprints on the island.
"It belonged to a really big animal."
The news comes as this year marks the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Iguanodon this year, Joe explained.
Iguanodons were large herbivores which measured up to nine to ten meters long and weighed up to four-and-a-half tonnes.
Joe added: "Iguanodons are pretty cool and were quite common - but to see a footprint so well preserved in this area is great.
"I was pretty chuffed!
"Iguanodons waked around in quite large groups of maybe 20 to 30, were quite large individuals and walked on all fours and ran on two feet.
"They went around eating all the smaller plants around the ecosystem at the time."
Joe has recently launched South Coast Fossils, offering his own fossil walks at Highcliffe, near Christchurch.
He added: "The Isle of Wight is one of the best places in Europe for finding dinosaur remains and footprints."
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