New giant long-necked dinosaur fossil discovered in China
Paleontologists have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, from a partial skeleton discovered near Chongqing in southwest China, a find that sheds fresh light on sauropod evolution in East Asia. The dinosaur lived during the Early Oxfordian age of the Jurassic, around 160 million years ago. The bones were recovered from purplish‑red … Read more