January 18, 2016

Some of the dorsal vertebrae that made up Morelladon beltrani's sail (Image José Miguel Gasulla, Fernando Escaso, Iván Narváez, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz)

An article published in the journal “PLOS ONE” describes a dinosaur with a “sail” on its back that lived about 125 million years ago in today’s Spain. Its skeleton isn’t complete but according to the team of the National Distance Education University (NDEU) in Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid (AUM) who examined it its characteristics are sufficiently distinctive to create a new genus called Morelladon. The species was named Morelladon beltrani.