The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Paleospine, Chinese Academy of Sciences) cooperated with Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Geological Survey and Research Institute and other units to develop the Late Cretaceous (approximately) In the strata between 83 million and 70 million years ago, the latest study found fossils of a new genus of small dinosaurs of the dinosaur family, named "Inner Mongolia Butterfly Hunting Dragon".
This important research paper on dinosaurs was recently published online in the international professional academic journal "Cretaceous Research", which has attracted attention.
On November 3, Pei Rui, the first author of the paper and associate researcher of the Institute of Paleospine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency in Beijing to interpret the significance and impact of the findings of the "Inner Mongolia Butterfly Hunting Dragon" research.
He introduced that the dinosaurs of the Tetraodontidae are a small and medium-sized theropod dinosaurs. They are closely related to birds. Together with the ornithosaurus dinosaurs, they constitute the near-avian dinosaurs. Therefore, the teeth are broken. The study of dragon dinosaurs is of great significance for understanding the specific details of the evolution of non-avian dinosaurs to birds.
At the same time, it is also of great significance for understanding the evolution pattern of near-bird dinosaurs and the paleoecological and paleoenvironmental history of the Late Cretaceous in Northeast Asia.
(Reporter Sun Zifa produced Lu Huiqian)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]