An international team of researchers recently identified a new species of dwarf dinosaur. According to a press release, the team first found the bones in 2007 in a riverbed of the Haţeg Basin in Transylvania — a hot spot for Late Cretaceous vertebrate discoveries in Europe.
A New Species of Dwarf Dinosaur Discovered in Transylvania
Researchers are still piecing together how this dwarf dinosaur found its way from France to Romania.
By Monica Cull
Dec 2, 2022 7:00 PM
(Credit:Peter Nickolaus)
Inhabitants of the "Island of the Dwarf Dinosaurs" in present-day Transylvania in the Cretaceous: Transylvanosaurus (front right), as well as turtles, crocodiles, giant pterosaurs and other dwarf dinosaurs.
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