Pepito the hunchback dinosaur goes on show in Spain

Pepito the hunchback dinosaur goes on show in Spain
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By h.b. - Sep 9, 2010 - 7:27 AM
Spanish Palaeontologists have confirmed that the remains of a dinosaur found in Cuenca in 2003 are from a previously unknown species

Artists impression of how the dinosaur looked, - Raul Martín

Dubbed ‘Pepito’, the six metre long dinosaur had a hunchback, and was a meat eater. It lived in Spain 125 million years ago.
Details of the discovery are printed in the latest edition of Nature magazine. The beast has been given the scientific name of Concavenator Corcovatus which means the ‘hunchbacked hunter from Cuenca’.

Pepito was found at Las Hoyas in the Serranía de Cuenca, and is considered to be the most complete articulated skeleton ever found in Spain.

The bones will be on show to the public from today in the Castilla-La Mancha Science Museum in Cuenca.

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