The Wawel Dragon Silesauruses
The most important findings include a petrified skeleton of a large, two-legged predator discovered in 2008, representing a species that remains yet unknown to science. Its remains were dug out in a Silesian brick factory in Lisowice; therefore, in the first publications, among others, in National Geographic, the animal was referred to as "the dragon from Lisowice". The explorers, including Mr Sulej, Professor Jerzy Dzik from the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and his doctoral student at that time, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, called it “the Wawel Dragon” – after the famous Polish legend of a dragon living in a cave under the Royal Castle in Krakow. The remains have been assessed to be 205–200 million years old. The dragon was approximately 4–5 meters long and weighed up to 1 tonne. It could have been a very early ancestor of the tyrannosaurus.
