A “dwarf dinosaur” fossil has been found in Romania. It inhabited a prehistoric European island
Paleontologists have found the remains of a new species of dinosaur that lived about 70 million years ago on a prehistoric island. Scientists say it was small in size, supporting the claim that dinosaurs living on the islands were smaller than their mainland counterparts.
The Cretaceous was the last period of the Mesozoic era. It ended about 66 million years ago with a mass extinction event, during which most plant and animal species, including non-bird dinosaurs, became extinct. It was also the time in the history of our planet when the greatest transgression of the sea in history began, and a large part of the land was flooded.
A new species of dwarf dinosaur has been found in Romania
It was in the Cretaceous that the intensive rock-forming movements that shaped the Alps and the first damming forms of the Tatra Mountains began. Europe, on the other hand, at that time more resembled an archipelago of many islands than the coherent continent we know today. Moreover, it had a tropical climate, reminiscent of today’s Philippines or Indonesia.
In the territory of Transylvania, the historical land of modern Romania, scientists found the remains of a new species of dinosaur…
