The Hațeg Basin and surrounding areas in Transylvania, western Romania, have been a hotspot for research on vertebrate faunas of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago. One of the historically ea...

Se trata de especies hervíboras. Resultado de investigación en fósiles muestran la diversidad de estos dinosaurios herbívoros de cuello largo

A team including UCL researchers has identified two new dinosaur species found in present-day Romania that lived shortly before dinosaurs went extinct.

A team of international researchers has uncovered two new species of dinosaurs in Romania's Hațeg Basin, part of the UNESCO Global Geopark Țara Hațegului, the University of Bucharest announced. The discovery, led by Dr. Verónica Díez Díaz from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, sheds new light on the diversity of dinosaurs that roamed Europe during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 70 million years ago. The newly identified species, Petrustitan hungaricus and Uriash kadici, are sauropods. Their discovery increases the number of known European sauropod species to 11, a significant rise from just five species documented 15 years ago. Notably, four