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
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le bokete go le kae?
Doolysaurus e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sebatling sa gago. Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di monate
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

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga 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
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Doolysaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Jung et al. 20264
- Setlhopha
- Dija-dimela tse di nang le melomo
- Lelapa / clade
- Thescelosauridae4
- Thulaganyo
- Ornithischia4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 113 go ya go 94 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Albian / Cenomanian)4
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Ilseongsan4
- Dinaga
- Korea Borwa4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- 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
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure how big Doolysaurus grew as an adult, because only a juvenile skeleton has been found.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- 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): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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