Ubirajara jubatus lived more than 110 million years ago in what is now northeastern Brazil. By Gretchen VogelAbout 110 million years ago in what is now Brazil, a pint-size dinosaur cut a flamboyant figure with a display of filaments resembling mammalian fur and narrow, bladelike structures erupting from its shoulders.
Now it’s in the spotlight for another reason: questions about how it fell into the hands of the paleontologists who described it last week and was added to the collection of a museum in southwest Germany.Some researchers say the specimen may have been exported illegally.