Island dinosaur named after finder Nick Chase who died of cancer

Mr Chase’s sister, Sarah, said her brother had always been obsessed with archaeology and palaeontology when they were growing up.

“Every house we lived in, the back garden would be dug up to a great depth,” she said.

“He found stuff wherever he went.

“You could walk down any beach with Nick and he would come back with an arm full of finds. He just had the eye for it.”

She said he unearthed the Iguanodon skull at Brook Bay after spotting a “minute” rib bone poking from the cliff.

“Nobody would take any notice of it but Nick said, ‘there’s a dinosaur in there’, and he was right – there was.

“It was a very important find. It had the most complete skull of any Iguanodon and over the following weeks and month he and various friends dug it out.”