T-rex's 'dragon' cousin found in Wales! New species is UK's oldest meat-eating dinosaur

This could explain the dinosaur’s tiny stature as island-dwelling species tend to show signs of so-called island dwarfism.

The expert explained: “Because the fossil reptiles from this area, including Pendraig, are all quite small-sized, we used statistical analyses to investigate whether Pendraig might have been an insular dwarf.

“The results indicate that Pendraig is indeed small, even for a theropod of that time period, but not uniquely so.

“Furthermore, based on several characters on the bones, we were able to determine that, although the specimens of Pendraig were not very young, they were also likely not fully grown.

“So Pendraig might have gotten somewhat bigger than the specimens we have so far, which limits our ability to perform reliable body size analyses.”

source: express.co.uk