The hunchback of central Spain

New dinosaur species has a hump plus possible featherlike structures on its arms

A newly described carnivorous dinosaur species has a strikingly unusual hump on its back and hints of featherlike appendages on its arms. The 125 million-year-old fossil from central Spain suggests that feathers evolved in more primitive dinosaurs than previously thought, researchers say.

A FINE FEATHERED FLESH-EATER? An artistic rendering shows what the 125 million-year-old flesh-eating dinosaur Concavenator corcovatus from central Spain might have looked like: a hunchback with featherlike skin appendages on its arms.