Friends of Dinosaur Isle

02/10/2026

Who doesn't love a spinosaurid?! Well, Dinosaur Isle Museum has not one, not two, but four for you to come and meet. Baryonyx, Ceratosuchops, Riparovenator and the White Rock spinosaurid. The main gallery houses skull material from some of these key specimens which were collected right here along the coast of the Isle of Wight.

These large Cretaceous predators were closely related to the famous Spinosaurus, and shared its crocodile-like skull shape. This helped them to hunt new prey both on land and in the water.

Find out more when you visit the museum - FODI members get free entry! Sign up for membership via our website 🦴 https://www.friendsofdinosaurisle.co.uk/support-us

28/08/2026

Next Friday (September 4th) we are very excited to be joined by Professor Andrew Scott, from Royal Holloway University, who will be talking to us about 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑄𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛: 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠, 𝐷𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐹𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒.

Professor Scott is an acclaimed palaeobotanist, palynologist, and geologist, who has worked extensively on the history of wildfires through evolutionary time, and the role of fire in Earth system processes. He is the author of over 240 scientific papers, and has written or edited 12 books.

In this talk, Professor Scott will be delving into the role that wildfires played in shaping the Cretaceous environments that dinosaurs called home, and the lessons this has for us in the modern day.

This talk will be at 𝟭 𝗽𝗺, 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, in the museum. This talk will be available to all museum visitors for no extra charge.

From August 29th onwards museum visitors will also be able to see the new special poster exhibit that Professor Scott has prepared from us. These new poster displays further explore the study of ancient wildfires, and the evidence for their presence in the fossil record of the Isle of Wight. These new poster displays can be seen from now in the main dinosaur gallery, opposite the lab.

28/08/2026

Our summer talk season wraps up tomorrow (Friday Aug 28th) with two final talks, all about dinosaurs!

First, at 11 am, join our curator Dr David Button as he talks about his favourite of the Isle of Wight’s dinosaurs - the long-necked sauropods.

Finally, at 1 pm, David will be back talking about his top 15 dinosaur discoveries from the past 25 years!

Image:
David with a vertebra from the sauropod Eucamerotus, discovered on the Isle of Wight.

21/08/2026

It's almost time for our picnic!

Join us on the 22nd August 2026 at 16:00 for some outdoor talks by FODI trustees and museum staff. There will also be the chance to handle fossil specimens 🦴 This will be followed up by some food (vegan options available) 🌭🍩

TO BUY TICKETS, VISIT OUR WEBSITE (LINK IN BIO!) OR COPY THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS

Tickets are £8 for non-members and £5 for members. Everyone is welcome!

20/08/2026

Our FODI DINOSAUR PICNIC and FOSSIL TALKS are here! 🌭🦖

Join us on the 22nd August 2026 at 16:00 for some outdoor talks by FODI trustees and museum staff. There will also be the chance to handle fossil specimens 🦴 This will be followed up by some food (vegan options available) 🌭🍩

TO BUY TICKETS, VISIT OUR WEBSITE (LINK IN BIO!) OR COPY THE LINK IN THE COMMENTS

Tickets are £8 for non-members and £5 for members. Everyone is welcome!

20/08/2026

06/08/2026

From now on there’ll be double the fun at Dinosaur Isle this summer holidays! There will now be TWO talks from our museum scientists on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11 am and 1 pm. Come along this afternoon to hear about some of the radical reptiles that lived alongside the island’s dinosaurs!

27/07/2026

It's officially the summer holidays! Come and say hello to Polacanthus and the other dinosaurs at the museum 👋🦕🦖