{"id":233650,"date":"2026-03-19T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fossil-x-ray-reveals-new-species-of-baby-dino-named-for-iconic-korean-cartoon"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:09:22","slug":"fossil-x-ray-reveals-new-species-of-baby-dino-named-for-iconic-korean-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/fossil-x-ray-reveals-new-species-of-baby-dino-named-for-iconic-korean-cartoon","title":{"rendered":"Fossil X-ray reveals new species of baby dino named for iconic Korean cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fossil-x-ray-reveals-new-species-of-baby-dino-named-for-iconic-korean-cartoon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cute, green, and sporting two sprigs of hair on his head, a mischievous baby dinosaur named Dooly is one of the most beloved cartoon characters in South Korea. So, when researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center discovered a new species of baby dinosaur from Korea\u2019s Aphae Island, they knew exactly what to call it: Doolysaurus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDooly is one of the very famous, iconic dinosaur characters in Korea. Every generation in Korea knows this character,\u201d said Jongyun Jung, a visiting postdoctoral researcher at UT\u2019s Jackson School of Geosciences who led the research. \u201cAnd our specimen is also a juvenile or \u2018baby,\u2019 so it\u2019s perfect for our dinosaur species name to honor Dooly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The baby dinosaur is the first new dinosaur species discovered in Korea in 15 years and the first Korean dinosaur fossil found with portions of its skull. The skull bones were revealed when the fossil underwent a scientific <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-side-necked-turtle-fossil-uk-isle.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">micro-CT scan<\/a> at the University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (UTCT) facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute, green, and sporting two sprigs of hair on his head, a mischievous baby dinosaur named Dooly is one of the most beloved cartoon characters in South Korea. So, when researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Korean Dinosaur Research Center discovered a new species of baby dinosaur from Korea\u2019s Aphae Island, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}