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Richard Pallardy

Enormous skull of 200-million-year-old giant dinosaur discovered in China

Skull of the new species of sauropodomorph dinosaur.

An enormous, extremely well preserved dinosaur skull unearthed in China belongs to a never-before-seen species, researchers say.

The early sauropod relative was discovered in 2007 in the Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in Yunnan Province, southern China. It grew to massive proportions — reaching up to 33 feet (10 meters) in length, researchers estimate.

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