China discovered 2 new dinosaurs, as big as blue whales

According to a study published in “Science Reports”, scientists have discovered two new dinosaur species in northwestern China, where dinosaur fossils have never been found before. According to the study, fossils of three different dinosaurs dating from about 13 to 120 million years ago were discovered in the Turpan-Hami Basin, China, about 2 to 5 kilometers apart. On Thursday, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Museum of Brazil published their findings in Science Reports, part of the journal Nature.

Scientists named this species Silutitan sinensis or “silu”, and Hamititan xinjiangensis was named after the place where the fossil specimen was found in Xinjiang. They said that “silu” means “Silk Road” in Mandarin Pinyin, “to commemorate the great trade route, “connecting east and west”. “Hami” refers to the city of Hami where the specimens were found.

according to ResearchSilutitan sinensis is a new species of sauropods-a herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck, a long tail, a large body and a small head. It said that the cervical vertebrae of the dinosaur were found to have some characteristics, indicating that it belongs to the sauropod dinosaur family, which has only been found in East Asia so far.

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The researchers said that the Xinjiang Hamititans are estimated to be more than 55 feet long, and their characteristics are more similar to sauropod dinosaurs found in South America. The shape and ridges along the vertebrae indicate that it belongs to a sauropod dinosaur family called Titanosaurus, which is abundant in Asia and South America.

The Silutitan specimen is estimated to be more than 65.6 feet long, and the Hamiitan specimen is 55.77 feet long, which makes the dinosaur almost as big as a blue whale.

According to this study, the third specimen may be the somapod sauropod, a group of dinosaurs that lived from the late Jurassic period about 160.3 million years ago to the late Cretaceous period about 66 million years ago. It is limited to four vertebrae and rib fragments.

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“We are very excited about the part of the study, and now this is a difficult problem we have to understand,” Alexander Kellner, the co-author of the study and director of the Rio National Museum, told ABC News. “How did this almost’South American’ dinosaur finally appear in Asia?” asked the Brazilian paleontologist.

Kellner said they plan to continue digging to learn more, adding that they believe that there are nests full of eggs and embryonic remains of newly discovered species hidden beneath the surface of the area. “We have always dreamed of finding a dinosaur nest there. This is our greatest hope so far,” he told ABC News.

Earlier this year, a dinosaur was found sitting on an egg nest with fossil embryos in southeastern China, and another new species was discovered in northeastern China last September.