China Becomes One of World's Dinosaur Research Centers

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China Becomes One of World's Dinosaur Research Centers

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As the British magazine Nature again published China's discovery on dinosaur, the western area of Liaoning Province becomes a world-renowned "dinosaur village", a series of discoveries by Chinese scientists made China one of the world research centers.

In recent years, the celebrated Nature magazine successively reported a series of important dinosaur discoveries in the western area of Liaoning Province. This has aroused great attention in the world.

The previous discoveries were those carnivorous dinosaurs, but this time, Nature reported the herbivorous dinosaurs from Liaoning. It is the first time to show that the research has gained a further progress in this aspect, and the province has also become a hotspot in the world for dinosaur researches.

According to report from Chinese Academy of Sciences, as an up-and-coming latent in the field of dinosaur research, Dr. Xu Xing has made a series of achievements in the study of varieties of dinosaurs, indicating some being the origin of birds.

Some of his essays were published on British, American, Canadian, German and other countries' academic periodicals.

In 2001, Dr. Xu got the state outstanding youth science fund. So far, he has found and named 12 kinds of dinosaurs with 9 essays published in the magazine "Nature".

Dinosaur Discoveries in China

South China-- New Genus of Dinosaur Discovered in South China

Chinese scientists have announced their recent discovery of at least one new species of dinosaur, the "sauropoda," in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Liaoning--Complete fossilized dinosaur skeleton

A well-preserved 4.5-meter-long fossilized dinosaur skeleton was excavated recently in Yixian County in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Jilin--70 fossilized dinosaur eggs and skeletal remains

More than 70 fossilized dinosaur eggs and skeletal remains of dinosaurs have been unearthed in northeast China's Jilin Province.

Inner Mongolia--8 kinds of ancient vertebrate fossils

China, Belgium lately concluded their 6-year cooperation in dinosaur fossil investigation and excavation to have big archaeological finds recovered. It is the biggest of its kind in terms of quantity and quality of fossils ever brought to light in Inner Mongolia.

Gansu--World largest dinosaur footprints

Archaeological news is in the spotlight as huge dinosaur footprints were found in Yongjing county of Gansu province. Archeologists have now confirmed those footprints as the largest found anywhere in the world.

By PD Online Staff Li Yan

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