By Oliver Afonso
In September 2010 Francisco Ortega and his team from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia published scientific data about a dinosaur found in Cuenca in 2003 in the magazine Nature.
The team found a nearly complete skeleton, about 6 metres long from nose to tail, in the same position as the live animal. This is a newly discovered species of carnivorous dinosaur that lived 125 millions of years ago, during the early Cretaceous Period. They named it Concavenator corcovatus, because of the hump on its back. Furthermore, it has bulges on the forearm bones, perhaps for wing feathers. These features had never been described in dinosaurs before.
It can be seen in the Science Museum of Castilla-La Mancha (Cuenca).
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