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Spanish palaeontologists have uncovered a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feather follicles.The researchers, whose findings are published in Nature, located the fossils near Cuenca, central Spain. They named the reptile Concavenator corcovatus, meaning "meat eater from Cuenca with a hump". The type of dinosaur that was found is known as a theropod. Theropods are mainly known from the ancient southern landmass, Gondwana. Over time, Gondwana and other ancient landmasses broke up, forming the continents we see today.

At some point between 195,000 and 123,000 years ago, the population size of Homo sapiens plummeted, thanks to cold, dry climate conditions that left much of our ancestors' African homeland uninhabitable. Everyone alive today is descended from a group of people from a single region who survived this catastrophe... ...studies of the DNA of modern-day people indicate that, once upon a time, our ancestors did in fact undergo a dramatic population decline. Although scientists lack a precise timeline for the origin and near extinction of our species, we can surmise from the fossil record that our forebears arose throughout Africa...