dinosaurs

The remains of an ampelosaurus found in 2007 in the Lo Hueco site (Cuenca) have allowed the 3D reconstruction of the animal's brain, which has turned out to be extraordinarily small, according to an investigation in which the Higher Council for Scientific Research has participated (CSIC) and published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Paleontologists from Dinópolis discover another giant dinosaur in Riodeva (Teruel), where in 2003 the largest dinosaur in Europe was found: Turiasaurus. A femur almost two meters in length, the bone m

A team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that they have named Abydosaurus mcintoshi.

American researchers have described the oldest dinosaur fossils. The remains of the new Nyasasaurus parringtoni date from the Middle Triassic, and are estimated to be 10 to 15 million years older than any other known dinosaur remnant. "If it is not the first dinosaur, at least it is the closest relative to it that we have found," explains Sterling Nesbitt.

Australian scientists have carried out a study that determines that all the links in the DNA chain, preserved at the ideal temperature of 5 degrees Celsius, would be completely destroyed after 6.8 million years, which is incompatible with the idea of finding intact genetic material in a dinosaur fossil from 80 million years ago.

A study shows that the dentition of hadrosaurs evolved in the same way as that of mammals, such as the mink or the elephant, which facilitated their adaptation to the surrounding flora and their rapid expansion. According to the authors, "these bipeds broke with the primitive archetype of reptiles and developed one of the most sophisticated dentures ever discovered."

Researchers from Zaragoza have just described the smallest plant-eating dinosaur in Spain. It is called Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae, and it reached a length of just two meters and weighs 20 kilos as an adult. With an age of 130 million years, it would correspond to an agile and fast dinosaur, adapted to run fast in order to escape predators as it lacks a defensive shield, like a Cretaceous gazelle.

A few weeks ago, two residents of Basturs (Lleida) found several remains of huge bones while shepherding their flock. Paleontologists from the Catalan Institute of Paleontology (ICP) and the Conca Dellá Museum confirmed what the discoverers thought: they were dinosaur bones.