The reptile, which scientists said looked similar to a "Chinese dragon," is a 16-foot-long aquatic reptile that existed in the Triassic period in Southern China.
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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."
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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.