Dr. Neurosaurus

Argentina, my home country, is famous for its beef, Spanish dialect (castellano), soccer players (Messi is unstoppable), and in the paleontology world, for its enormous sauropod dinosaurs, like the recently revealed Titanosaur at the American Museum of Natural History. Recently, a paper was published in the journal Ameghiniana talking about

Sometimes we find fossils that we can’t quite compare to living animals. We can get a rough idea of what kind of animal they are and maybe what they might have eaten, but the details are unknown. Sometimes it’s because we don’t have enough of the animal’

Well, maybe a lot of bad days. In February (2016) a new description of the holotype of Dilophosaurus wetherilli was published. A holotype is the specimen that is used to name the species. It can be the best example of the species and is usually the first one found. The