A 50-foot "dragon" dinosaur species was discovered in China by farmers digging for a fish pond in Qijang city in the southwestern Chongqing province, according to CNN.

Apparently, the research team did not realize the fact that they had excavated a new creature. "It had already been collected, prepared and was laid out on tables. This region of China has lots of dinosaur fossils, including skeletons, bonebeds and footprints. The preservation is quite nice, and we were asked to help describe it," said scientist Philip Currie, according to Fox News.

A research team from the University of Alberta has been leading the research on this discovery. A member on the team said that the creature was Qijianglong, the "dragon of Qijiang' because farmers thought the bones resembled the shape of Chinese mythical dragons, according to CNN.

A member of the team, Lida Xing, spoke to CNN and said, "We found the dinosaur's huge vertebrae with the skull and the tail, but couldn't find any bones from the hands or the legs. So the locals began to say the long body looked just like a dragon from ancient Chinese stories."

This creature, which had unusually long necks, is unique to China. Tetsuto Miyashita of University of Alberta, said, "Qijianglong shows that long-necked dinosaurs diversified in unique ways in Asia during Jurassic times "” something very special was going on in that continent. Nowhere else we can find dinosaurs with longer necks than those in China. The new dinosaur tells us that these extreme species thrived in isolation from the rest of the world," according to Save Planet.