Less than a decade later, World War II swallowed Germany. The fossils were housed in the Old Academy building of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology when the campus was hit by air raids on July 21, 1944, completely destroying the wing containing fossils from Egypt, researchers said.

The fossilized skull of this new dinosaur species was unearthed from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province, southern China.

Paleontologists found the fossilized skull in Yunnan Province’s Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark in China. The group determined the skull belonged to a sauropodomorph—a group of dinosaurs that also includes giant herbivorous sauropods such as Brachiosaurus —albeit one entirely new to the scientific record.

The well-preserved skull belongs to a never-before-seen species of sauropodomorph that potentially grew up to 33 feet long.

A recent discovery in China has unveiled an extraordinary fossil that adds to our understanding of dinosaurs that lived 200 million years ago. This find, an enormous and well-preserved skull from a previously unidentified species,

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