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Near-complete dinosaur fossil skull in China is a new Jurassic sauropod species
A fossil skull found in northwestern China belongs to a rare group of dinosaurs that is an early member of a lineage of sauropods not related to better-known species such as Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus. Sauropods were the largest land animals of all time. They had distinctive small heads, and long necks and tails. Sauropods could eat more than 200kg of plant matter every – the largest species could have grown to 70–100 tonnes. This dinosaur gr…
Dinosaurs are partly huge creatures, but occasionally tiny parts of them open up completely new insights into their millions of years old family history.
Identifying a new species of dinosaur is still a small event. Recently, paleontologists discovered in China the remains of a specimen belonging to the family of giant long-necked dinosaurs, the sauropods. Rarely, the skull is particularly well preserved.
In the vast desert plains of the Chinese province of Gansu, scientists have made a special discovery: a new species of long-necked dinosaur, named Jinchuanloong niedu, which loosely translates as ‘Jinchuan dragon’. The discovery sheds new light on the evolution of sauropods during the Middle Jurassic, some 165 million years ago. The fossil of Jinchuanloong niedu was excavated in the Xinhe formation […] More science? Read the latest articles on S…
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