In Argentina, they discovered a new species of dinosaur that weighed like a cat and looked like a dragon

August 15, 2022

Paleontologists have found the remains of a previously unknown dinosaur species in southern Argentina, which they called Jakapil kaniukura ("shield bearer"). Such a dinosaur was the size of a cat, walked on its hind legs and looked like a small dragon. Scientists believe that Jakapil kaniukura lived about 100 million years ago. Its fossils have been found during excavations for the past ten years, but only now have researchers got enough data to single out this dinosaur as a separate species.