A colossal, exquisitely preserved dinosaur skull has been unearthed in China. The fossilized skull of this new dinosaur species was unearthed from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province,

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.

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,