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Unique skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs discovered in Barcelona

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Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), have discovered in Vallcebre (Barcelona) a fossil bearing an impression of the skin surface of a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Its characteristics make it a unique discovery in Europe. The geological research was conducted in the village of Vallcebre, near Barcelona, to study the origins of rock sediments from the Late Cretaceous period (approx. 66 million years ago).

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