The National Museums Scotland announced a recent discovery of a 240 million-year-old "Chinese Dragon" fossil known as the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, noting it dates back to the Triassic period.

The 240 million-year-old animal — nicknamed the "Chinese dragon" — belongs to the species Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a reptile that used its remarkably long neck to ambush unsuspecting prey ...

A team of international scientists have unearthed a 240 million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period of China that one scientist described as a "long and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon." ...

To complicate the effort beyond having so few fossils to work with, the Yunxian Man fossil is believed to be roughly 1 million years old—much older than either the Dragon Man or H. sapiens.

The remains of a 240-million-year-old marine reptile with an uncanny resemblance to a mythical Chinese dragon have been pierced together by paleontologists for the first time.

Newly-discovered fossils have allowed scientists to reveal a 240-million-year-old “dragon” in its entirety for the first ever time, National Museums Scotland (NMS) said in a statement on Friday.

Archaeology & History Archaeologists in China Uncover 5,000-Year-Old Jade ‘Dragon’ The carved jade is typical of Hongshan Neolithic culture. Photo: Xinhua.

An international team of scientists has released images of what they say is a 240-million-year-old aquatic reptile fossil that resembles the long, snake-like features of the mythical Chinese ...

World News 240-million-year-old fossil of ‘Chinese dragon’ with ‘extraordinarily long neck’ discovered in Southern China By Alyssa Guzman Published Feb. 23, 2024, 10:35 p.m. ET ...