The I.N.H.A. Staff Blog

Day: February 6, 2015

Long-necked ‘dragon’ discovered in China

Drawing of long-necked dinosaur by a river

University of Alberta paleontologists including PhD student Tetsuto Miyashita, former MSc student Lida Xing and professor Philip Currie have discovered a new species of a long-necked dinosaur from a skeleton found in China. The findings have been published in a new paper in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Qijianglong (pronounced “CHI-jyang-lon”) is about 15 metres…