Diego Pol

Diego has also worked in multiple international projects and expeditions and published studies of fossils from South Africa, Madagascar, Colombia, Brazil, Mongolia, and China. During the last fifteen years Diego’s research has been focused on the remarkable animal biodiversity from the dinosaur era preserved in Patagonia. Diego and his research team have recently discovered fossils of over 20 new species of dinosaurs, crocs, and other vertebrates that are revealing new chapters in the history of the past ecosystems of Patagonia. Many of these discoveries revealed a previously unknown Jurassic biota from South America but discoveries in Cretaceous rocks also include one of the largest known dinosaurs so far, the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum , a 122-feet long herbivore estimated to weigh over 60 tons.

• POL, D., RAMEZANI, J., GOMEZ, K., CARBALLIDO, J. L., CARABAJAL, A. P., RAUHUT, O. W. M., ESCAPA, I. H. & CÚNEO, N. R. 2020. Extinction of herbivorous dinosaurs linked to Early Jurassic global warming event. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20202310
• CARBALLIDO, J.L., POL, D., OTERO, A., CERDA, I.A., SALGADO, L., GARRIDO, A.C., RAMEZANI, J., CUNEO, N.R., & KRAUSE, J.M. 2017. A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society 284: 1-10. DOI 10.1098/rspb.2017.1219
• POL, D. & O.W.M. RAUHUT. 2012. A Middle Jurassic abelisaurid from Patagonia and the early diversification of theropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 3170-3175.
• TURNER, A.H., D. POL, J.A. CLARKE, G.M. ERICKSON, & M.A. NORELL. 2007. A basal dromaeosaurid and size evolution preceding avian flight. Science 317: 1378-1381.