A ten-metre-long dinosaur is set to leave Southampton’s Westquay after two years.

Big Sara an allosaurus ten metres long and more than three metres high will be going to her new home.

The news was shared by the shopping centre on its Facebook page on Sunday but it has not been revealed where it will go next.

Big Sara is one of the most complete allosaurus skeletons ever found.

About 70 per cent of the bones are original, with the missing ones being reproduced in resin.

It came to Westquay in June 2022 and its arrival coincided with the the opening of Jurassic World: Dominion, at Westquay’s Cinema de Lux.

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The remains of the fearsome-looking creature were discovered in 2015 on a hillside in the Morrison Formation in Wyoming, the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America, and took more than two years to remove.

As previously reported, when it came to Westquay, pupils from St John's Primary School walked to the Westquay shopping complex to view the skeleton of an allosaurus that roamed the earth about 150 million years ago.

Children stood open-mouthed as they glimpsed the fearsome-looking creature for the first time.

Lucy Hibbs, a member of the school's senior leadership team, previously said: "We wanted to give them a lovely surprise. On the way over I gave them a few clues, saying we were going to see something that was really ancient and really big.

"One of the pupils thought it might be an elephant. I think they were genuinely amazed to see a real dinosaur."