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)

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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.

Skeleton of Chasmosaurus belli

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An article published in the journal “Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology” describes a research on a juvenile Chasmosaurus, one of the rarest discoveries among dinosaurs, occurred in 2010. For the first time a nearly complete skeleton of a young specimen belonging to the ceratopsids family, the same as the more famous Triceratops. These fossils give us an idea about how a Chasmosaurus appeared at a young age.

The Fifth Dragon by Ian McDonald

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The novelette “The Fifth Dragon” by Ian McDonald was published for the first time in 2014.

Adriana Corta is working in the mines on the Moon there is having a love story with Achi Debasso, an ecologist of Syrian origin. They are two very different women who found each other in a frontier that’s hostile but in great expansion. For their future it will be crucial to decide whether to return to Earth or to keep on living on the Moon. The point of no return will be marked by the moment their bones are too atrophied to return to Earth.

Endymion by Dan Simmons

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The novel “Endymion” by Dan Simmons was published for the first time in 1995. It’s the third book of the Hyperion Cantos and is the sequel to “The Fall of Hyperion”.

It’s been almost three centuries since the Fall. Raul Endymion is a guide and during a hunting kills a man in self-defense but it’s his word against that of a group of important men. Sentenced to death, he gets rescued by Martin Silenus, who convinces him to help Aenea to avoid the Pope’s armies when she comes out from the Time Tombs.

Accompanied by the android A. Bettik, Raul Endymion begins a long journey among the stars to help Aenea. Pursued by the team commanded by Father Captain Federico de Soya, he must find a number of truth sometimes hard to accept about the latest centuries of human history.

David Bowie with his wife Iman in 2009

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On Sunday, the great artist David Bowie passed away. He had cancer for some time but concealed his illness. He’s been an amazing artist that constantly experimented and reinvented himself. He leaves us a huge number of musical albums and cinema performances.