Fernando Novas, PhD in Natural sciences for the La Plata University, is an Argentine paleontologist working for the Comparative Anatomy Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural History Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires.
Working for the CONICET, he discovered many fossil dinosaurs, among them Patagonykus puertai, Unenlagia comahuensis and Araucanoraptor argentinyus, in the Patagonia southern region of South America. He also authored the scientific description of Puertasaurus reuili.
