Cover of new Mètode’s issue «The legacy of the dinosaurs», with the illustration by Óscar Sanisidro.
Cover of new Mètode's issue «The legacy of the dinosaurs», with the illustration by Óscar Sanisidro. The 117th issue of the communication journal of the University of Valencia focuses on the paleontological research on these extinct animals. "Popular appreciation of these animals dates almost as far back as their scientific discovery in the mid-19th century", states paleontologist Luis Alcalá in the of Mètode 's new monograph. Luis Alcalá is the coordinator of this new issue of the popular science magazine of the University of Valencia, which analyses the diversity of dinosaur species, the application of new technologies in palaeontology, as well as the use of these animals for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the development of certain rural areas and in which Andrés Santos-Cubedo , Jorge Orlando Calvo , Daniel Vidal and Alberto Cobos Periáñez have participated. "The fascination that dinosaurs provoke in young people makes them an attractive way of accessing the scientific method," says Dr. Alcalá, current managing director of the Science Park of Granada and who was director of the Dinópolis Foundation between 2002 and 2021. The issue makes us travel from the areas in the Maestrat basin, where we find dinosaurs such as Portellsaurus sosbaynati or Moredallon beltrani which lived in the areas that we currently know as Portell or Morell, to the giant sauropods of Argentina, where spectacular species such as Notocolossus gonzalezparejasi or Puertasaurus reuili , weighing up to 70 to 80 tonnes, have been discovered.
