Extreme dinosaur found with a long, dragon-like neck

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Artist's conception of the long-necked Qijianglong, chased by two carnivorous dinosaurs in southern China 160 million years ago.

None of us like to stick our necks out, but this dinosaur had no choice.
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This week, an international team of paleontologists described a newly discovered species of dinosaur that was probably 50 feet long — half body, half neck.

Scientists believe that the distance from the ground to its shoulder would have been 6 to 9 feet.

The long-necked dinosaur lived 160 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period. Its fossilized bones were discovered in southern China at a construction site near the city of Qijiang. The scientists named it Qijianglong guokr, which translates to "dragon of Quijiang."

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