Headlines like “found the dragon” are always to be wary of - at least one of the two is certainly not true. However, the story of a dragon found in China this week is accompanied by a video:
Here's what we know. A Chinese resource reports that the video was recorded in Zhangjiakou, which is not a remote village, but a large city in the northwestern province of Hebei in northern China with a population of 4.3 million, which will be one of the host cities of the 2022 Winter Olympics. of the year.
The translation of the story on wukong.com says the skeleton was about 60 feet long with a horned skull and two tiny arms at the joint of the neck. The long, slender serpentine body matches the Chinese version of dragons, not Game of Thrones or flying lizard types.
However, the skull looks more like an antelope's skull, and the bones, according to commentators, look like they were ripped out of several cows and put together to trick the public or use it in movies or TV shows.
In fact, every unusual fossil finding in China is immediately called a "dragon" - before any analysis is done.
However, real dinosaur fossils are known, very similar to the long dragons drawn by the Chinese.
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In particular, a 50-foot skeleton found in 2006 in Jiajiang City in southwestern Chongqing province was identified as the neck of a new species belonging to the Mamenchisauridae family of sauropod dinosaurs.
Earlier this year, the new dinosaur species was named Beibeilong sinensis, which means "baby dragon from China," as it was found in a fossil egg, had massive wings and could grow to a three-ton, 26-foot flying Oviraptorosaurus.
Meanwhile, people are watching videos from Zhangjiakou and still trying to figure out what this long dragon skeleton is? Most viewers' bets are fake, but that could change.