Doolysaurus
Doolysaurus was a tiny, plant‑eating dinosaur that lived in what is now South Korea. It was about the size of a big dog and had a beak for snipping leaves. This little dinosaur is special because it is the first dinosaur from South Korea with skull bones that scientists could study.1
Ankakhala liti?
Anali wamkulu bwanji?
Ankalemera bwanji?
Doolysaurus anali wamkulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWEYO?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chimene chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina kulikonse.
Anali ndi liwiro lotani?
Mfundo zosangalatsa
Doolysaurus was named after a famous Korean cartoon character called Dooly the Little Dinosaur.1
The only known Doolysaurus fossil is a juvenile that weighed about 8.3 kilograms (18 pounds), as light as a big house cat.1
Scientists found 40 to 50 small stones (gastroliths) with the skeleton, which the dinosaur swallowed to help digest tough plants.1
Doolysaurus lived in a floodplain environment about 113 to 97 million years ago, alongside other dinosaurs like oviraptorosaurs and troodontids.1
It is the second named basal neornithischian dinosaur from South Korea, after Koreanosaurus.1
The fossil was discovered in 2023 by Hyemin Jo on Aphae Island.1

Mafunso ofunsidwa kwambiri okhudza Doolysaurus
?How big was Doolysaurus?
The only known Doolysaurus fossil is a juvenile that weighed about 8.3 kilograms and was about the size of a big dog. As an adult it might have been twice as large.12
?Did Doolysaurus have feathers?
Scientists think Doolysaurus might have been covered in a fuzzy layer of feathers, like many small dinosaurs.2
?What did Doolysaurus eat?
Doolysaurus probably ate both plants and small food items, making it an omnivore. It swallowed small stones called gastroliths to help digest tough plants.13
?When did Doolysaurus live?
Doolysaurus lived during the Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 97 million years ago.12
Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Doolysaurus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Jung et al. 20264
- Gulu
- Odya zomera a milomo
- Banja / kladi
- Thescelosauridae4
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Ornithischia4
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 113 mpaka 94 miliyoni (Albian / Cenomanian)4
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Ilseongsan4
- Mayiko
- Korea ya Kumwera4
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 1 mu The Paleobiology Database4
- Kupezeka
- The Doolysaurus fossil was found in 2023 by Hyemin Jo on Aphae Island, South Korea. It was named and described in 2026 by Jongyun Jung and colleagues, who named it after the cartoon character Dooly and paleontologist Min Huh.1
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are not sure how big Doolysaurus grew as an adult, because only a juvenile skeleton has been found.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Doolysaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- New species of baby dinosaur named after famous South Korean cartoon | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- A new dinosaur species from Korea and its implications for early-diverging neornithischian diversity (dinodata.de)
- Doolysaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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