Jurassic Park may have been fiction, but the Isle of Wight, aka "Dinosaur Island," was the real deal. Around 130 million years ago, this island, now in the English Channel, was home to countless dinosaurs, mammals, sharks, lizards, frogs, salamanders and more.
Minus the blazing fires and floods that ripped through the place on occasion, it was a prehistoric animal paradise, with creatures basking near flowing rivers surrounded by lush coniferous forests.
