Published: February 19th, 2025,
Last updated: February 19th, 2025

A new addition to Jurassic Park: Based on a skeleton of an eight to ten-meter-long herbivore discovered in China from the early Jurassic period, which began 201 million years ago and ended 145 million years ago, Chinese scientists have concluded that the long-necked animal must have been a previously unknown dinosaur species. The remarkably well-preserved vertebrae of Xingxiulong Yueorum were excavated in Yunnan Province in 2015, but the findings of the archaeological analyses have only now been published in Historical Biology.