BREAKING NEWS

A TEAM OF PALEONTOLOGISTS IDENTIFIES IN PORTUGAL A

NEW SPECIES OF SAUROPODUS DINOSAURS

The identification of this new species confirms the presece of a great diversity of
sauropods in Portugal during the upper Jurassic, at levels of others áreas of the
planet such as North America ad Africa, reported the Faculty of Sciences of the
Uiversity of Lisbon
• The portugueses researcher who led the study, Pedro Mocho, who Works i
the Dom Luiz Institute of Sciences of this university and the Natural History
Society of Portugal
• In this work, started in 2013 and published this month in the scietific journal
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the researshers detail the fossil remains of
the Oceanotitan dentasi, belonging to the sauropods, herbivorous dinosaurs
that could reach large dimensions and that characterized by their long tails
and necks
• The Oceanotitan dantasi, of médium size, inhabited yhe Luisitana Basin about
150 million years ago, in the Upper Jurassic, and is one of the oldest members
of a group of sauropods called Somphospondyli, very diversified during the
Cretaceous period.
NASA PLANS TO LAND THE FIRST WOMAN ON THE MOON BY
2024

• NASA is planning on sending the first woman ever and the first man in nearly
five decades to the moon by 2024, thanks to an additional increase to the
agency's budget by President Trump.
• Only 12 humans, all male, have ever walked on the moon and they were all
American, according to Bettina Inclán, NASA Communications Director. All 12
men were Americans.
• "The last person walked on the Moon in 1972," Inclán told CNN in a
statement. "No woman has ever walked on the lunar surface NASA
announced Monday that Trump challenged the agency to land at the
south pole of the moon by 2024. That would be Trump's last year in
office if he is re-elected. In December 2017, Trump signed Space Policy
Directive 1, which called for NASA to send humans to the moon for the
first time since 1972 for "long-term exploration and use" and missions
to other planets
• NASA hopes that more exploration of the moon will help the US establish a
strategic presence in space and grow their international partnerships. One
billion dollars of the budget will go directly to the development of a
commercial human lunar system that will take humans to the moon's surface.