Asia's longest dinosaur fossil found in Xinjiang

A bone from a recently unearthed Mamenxi dinosaur has broken the Asian record for the longest fossil.

Scientists found the fossil while on an archaeological dig to recover the dinosaur in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The neck of the Mamenxi dinosaur is 15 meters long and is the largest dinosaur fossil in the world. Based on the size of its neck, scientists believe the dinosaur was 35 meters long, living up to its name as the longest dinosaur in Asia.

Before this discovery, the longest dinosaur fossil belonged to the Zhongjia Mamenxi dinosaur, which was found just hundreds of meters away from Mamenxi.

By People's Daily Online