The film «The Curse Ricla Crocodile» national prize on Science in Action


The short scientist recounts the process used by researchers Aragosaurus-IUCA group to describe the first Jurassic marine crocodile Spain

The nine-minute audiovisual duration was conducted by scientists in a 90-hour workshop, funded by FECYT
"Curse Ricla Crocodile", documentary by researchers at the Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Aragón Zaragoza which describes the first Jurassic marine crocodile in Spain, has won first prize in the fourteenth edition National Science in Action competition in the form of Short Science.

This visual has been edited by young researchers Aragosaurus-group within the fourth IUCA Screenplay Workshop Scientific Documentary Production, organized by the Unity of Scientific Culture of the University of Zaragoza and funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology ( FECYT) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

In "The Curse Ricla Crocodile," the researchers explain the process undertaken to describe the first Jurassic marine crocodile Spain. Fossil is one of the most important and emblematic of the Paleontological Museum of the University of Zaragoza and has studied and defined as a species new to science recently. Riclaensis Maledictosuchus marine crocodile is elejemplar oldest and best preserved of the Iberian Peninsula and is named after the town where it was found and almost 20 years (hence the curse) who has had to wait to be studied in depth.

Miguel Moreno Azanza Grill Bel Jara, Eduardo Berenguer Puértolas and Esther Díaz and José Manuel Gasca-authors are researchers who have edited this documentary entirely over 90 hours within the scientific documentary workshop at the University of Zaragoza. As in previous years, this course has been run by Javier Calvo, director and screenwriter, audiovisual professional for 17 years, and author of series for TVE as Trained and Entredosaguas. In this issue, work has also had the experience of cinematographer Sergio's Claw.