Image of one of the teeth of the titanosaur that has been included in the study. The length is about 3 cm (Bernat Vázquez / © Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont).

Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, the Museu de la Conca Dellà, and the Fundación Dinópolis have described the most complete dentition of a titanosaur found in Europe, from fossil remains discovered at the Els Nerets site (Pallars Jussà, Catalonia). These belong to one of the last dinosaurs of this group that lived in the Pyrenees around 70 million years ago and could potentially be a new species for science.

Recreation of life appearance of the new species of crocodile Ogresuchus furatus (Aina and Agnès Amblás / ICP)

A study led by Albert G. Sellés, researcher at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), describes the new species Ogresuchus furatus from fossil remains found in Coll de Nargó (Catalonia, Spain). It was a quite small crocodile that could have fed on dinosaur hatchlings. The fossil was stolen shortly before its extraction in 2013 and recovered few weeks later thanks to the intervention of the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan police.

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