Researchers have declared a new species of dinosaur found in northwestern China.
An international team of researchers, including participants from South Africa and the United States, said that a fossil uncovered in China's Xinjiang region in 2006 is in fact a new species.
The meat-eating theropod has been named "Auron Zhaoi," or "Dragon King,"after the dragon king in famous Chinese classical literary work "Journey to the West."
The Dragon King lived about 161 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period, and judging from its sharp teeth, is likely to have eaten meat like small mammals and lizards.
The team first discovered the leg and with more excavating discovered a partial skeleton, along with some teeth.