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New dinosaur fossils

YINCHUAN (CHINA): Fossils of a new dinosaur species have been unearthed near Lingwu city in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, experts said on Saturday. Eight sauropods, huge, long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs living in the middle Jurassic period, some 160 million years ago, were unearthed in a 3,000-square metres area, said Xu Xing, a researcher with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Experts have also found a 1.1-metre-tall backbone, the biggest ever excavated in Asia. Mr. Xu, who has named 15 new dinosaur species, believes that the dinosaur is a sub-species of diplodocus. — Xinhua

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