Vespersaurus paranaensis | 28 Jun 2019

• The researchers have found the fossil of a previously unknown dinosaur species named Vespersaurus paranaensis, that lived 90 million years ago in the Cruzeiro do Oeste municipality of Parana state in southern Brazil. 
• The fossil remains of the Vespersaurus paranaensis is over a metre and a half in length. It was a desert-based carnivorous dinosaur that used claws to capture small prey in the region.
• The Vespersaurus was a theropod, a group of two-footed, meat-eating dinosaurs that included the better known Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor.
  
  • The northeastern region of Parana was once a desert and the dinosaur’s remains suggest that the Vespersaurus was well adapted to that type of climate.