| Abstract | The Guizhou dragons were among the earliest creatures to roam the earth. They were almost like scaled-down versions of larger dinosaurs, which the Chinese refer to as "horrible dragons" to distinguish them. They had the same elliptic heads, protruding eyes, long thin necks, plump bodies, short legs and long tails. But the Guizhou dragons were also much older. They are believed to have lived in shallow sea water in the middle of the Triassic period - some 100 million years earlier than the dinosaur epoch, or more than 200 million years ago. So far their fossils have been discovered only in southwest China's Ghizhou province. |
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