Dooly the Little Dinosaur

Dooly the Little Dinosaur is a South Korean media franchise created by the cartoonist Kim Soo-jung. It began as a manhwa, a Korean comic, serialized from 1983 to 1993, and centers on Dooly, an anthropomorphic baby dinosaur who is kidnapped by aliens, gains supernatural powers, and ends up living in Seoul. The franchise later grew beyond the comic to include a television series and an animated film, and an official sequel titled Baby Saurus Dolly appeared in 1995. Dooly is regarded as a commercially successful character of South Korean animation. He was symbolically made a citizen of South Korea and given a resident registration card, and a Korean dinosaur species, Doolysaurus, was named after the character in 2026.