The "exceptional" fossil of Daurlong wangi from the Upper Cretaceous period of Inner Mongolia, China. (Image credit: Wang, X. et al. Scientific Reports (2022); (CC BY 4.0)) More than 100 million ...

Researchers, including those from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, say the dinosaur named Daurlong wangi was a type of mid-sized dromaeosaurid – a group of bird-like predatory dinosaurs.

That included the skeleton of Daurlong wangi, a species of raptor also found in China, whose gut contained "a large, bluish layer in the abdomen." ...

Scientists have unearthed a bird-like dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago in modern-day China with the partial skeleton of an ancient frog in the remains of its gut. Researchers, including ...