A SIX-year-old boy has unearthed rare 120-million-year-old pterosaur bones on the Isle of Wight.

Owain Lewis was on holiday with his family when he discovered the fossil - part of a flying reptile called a Pterosaur - while hunting for the relics at Compton Bay near Freshwater.

The find comprises wing bones of the extinct flying reptile which soared above the skies of the Isle of Wight during the Lower Cretaceous Period.

At the time, the area was a coastal lagoon occupied by crocodiles and dinosaurs. Pterosaurs are rare finds as their bones are very delicate, like those of birds which also do not preserve very well.

They may represent an Ornithocheirid pterosaur which had a four metre wingspan - a new species one of which was found at Sandown four years ago.

Alternatively, the bones may come from another type of Pterosaur, Istiodactylus which had an estimated wingspan of five metres.

Owain and his father Glyn reported their find to experts at the Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown.

The bones have since been sent to the Natural History Museum in London where they will be anaylised by dinosaur experts.