Posted on Feb 24, 2024

Paleontologists discover a 240-million-year-old 'Chinese dragon'

Lt Col Charlie Brown

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An international team of scientists from China, the U.S. and Europe has studied new fossils of the marine reptile Dinocephalosaurus orientalis. This research has made it possible to fully describe the bizarre, very impressive animal for the first time.

Paleontologists discover a 240-million-year-old 'Chinese dragon'

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Posted 2 y ago

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LTC Trent Klug

Posted 2 y ago

So very interesting. I wish I could be in on that dig.

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SGT Stephen Rowland

Posted 2 y ago

https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/spink/css66/image00595.jpg
If you have this coin with the dragon that could be easily related to the one in this article, please don’t clean it . Dragons could represent good fortune.

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SGT Carl Blas

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Nope, but it has chinese writing, I think

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SGT Carl Blas

Posted 10 mo ago

I knew a dragon once, she devoriced me in the 90's

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Paleontologists discover a 240-million-year-old 'Chinese dragon'

Paleontologists discover a 240-million-year-old 'Chinese dragon'

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