“Incredible experience’: Researchers find 240 million year old dragon fossil in China. It has a neck that is longer than the body and tail combined, fins in the limbs, and is over 240 million years old.
It is the first completely preserved reptile of its kind and allows conclusions to be drawn about life on Earth at that time. The already known plesiosaurs that inspired the Loch Ness myth also lived at this time, but they only developed around 40 million years later.