Arenysaurus se hace famoso

La nueva especie de hadrosáurido lambeosaurino, Arenysaurus ardevoli, encontrada en Arén (Huesca) y descrito por nuestro equipo acaba de salir en la prestigiosa página de discovery channel. Esta página se ha hecho eco del último número de la revista Palevol donde salió publicado Arenysaurus y ha realizado una entrevista a José Ignacio Canudo a cerca de esta nueva especie. Os adjuntamos a continuación parte de dicha entrevista:

Aug. 17, 2009 -- One of the last non-avian dinosaurs on Earth was a muscular, swimming duck-billed species that paleontologists recently discovered in Spain, according to a new study that has been accepted for publication in the journal Comptes Rendus Palevol.

Co-author Jose Ignacio Canudo told Discovery News that the hadrosaur, Arenysaurus ardevoli, meaning "sand dinosaur," lived just "a few thousand years before the K/T boundary."
This was the event 65.5 million years ago that wiped out all of the world's dinosaurs, save for a group of carnivorous dinosaurs that evolved into birds.

"Arenysaurus was certainly one of the dinosaurs that might have seen the fall of the K/T asteroid and suffered the consequences," said Canudo, a University of Zaragoza paleontologist.
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