Three-year-old dinosaur found in SW China, belonging to unknown genus and species Ji Yuqiao Published: May 06, 2021 08:32 PM The skull of the dinosaur. Photo: Courtesy of Center for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology of Yunnan University The skeleton of a young juvenile dinosaur has been discovered in Lufeng, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. The discovery is particularly exciting as the fossil does not match that of any known genus or species of dinosaur. Examining the fossil, which includes part of the dinosaur's skull, complete cervical vertebra, dorsal vertebra and metacarpal bone, researchers estimate that the dinosaur was about 1.7 meters long and was roughly three years old when it died, according to a press release from the Center for Vertebrate Evolutionary Biology of Yunnan University.