Scientists in Scotland have revealed a remarkable discovery of a “very strange” 240-million-year-old “Chinese dragon” fossil. The international team from National Museums Scotland revealed their discovery found in Guizhou Province in southern China of the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a 5-meter-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period of China dating back an estimated 240 million years.
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."
Paleontologists say they've uncovered the fossil of a creature that lived 240 million years ago and, according to one scientist, closely resembled the "mythical Chinese dragon."