A newly discovered dinosaur may be re-writing China's geological history, according to a recent finding of new giant sauropod, Lingwulong shenqi lived in the north of the country about 100-74 million years ago.
At this time, East Asia was thought to have split from the supercontinent Pangaea, but Lingwulong may be evidence that that was not the case.
Part of a subgroup called the neosauropods, Lingwulong appeared exactly where it shouldn't - in northern China, 15 million years earlier than any other known dinosaurs from this group.
At the time, Pangaea was beginning to fragment. It has been proposed that a sea, much like the Red Sea but larger, separated what is now China from the rest of the supercontinent, preventing animals from crossing.