Dinosaurs in Alava

The Basque Country was dinosaur territory between 55 and 75 million

years ago. Remains have been found in Álava, specifically in Treviño (in

the Lañu mine) and in Izki. We have visited the Lañu site. It is one of the

most important dinosaur sites in Europe. A team of geologists and palaeontologists

from the University of the Basque Country – UPV/EHU have

identified 40 species there, of which more than ten are dinosaurs, both

carnivores and herbivores. And thanks to the bone remains of a herbivore

dinosaur found in Lañu, a new species has been identified: Lirainosaurius

Astibiae. We’ll learn more about the era in which those dinosaurs lived.

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