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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vishwam Sankaran

New bird-like dinosaur fossil discovered in China with frog remains in its stomach

Andrey Atuchin

Scientists have unearthed a bird-like dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago in modern-day China with the partial skeleton of an ancient frog in the remains of its gut.

Researchers, including those from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, say the dinosaur named Daurlong wangi was a type of mid-sized dromaeosaurid – a group of bird-like predatory dinosaurs.

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