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1. Early ornithopod dinosaurs Compared with the numerous representatives of sauropod dinosaurs in the late Triassic, very few ornithischian dinosaurs were discovered at that time. They are really rare. Skull, mandible and teeth of Heterodontosaurus
Early paleontologists believed that dinosaurs were a class of reptiles of their own, so they were unified into the "order Dinosaurs". Later, as scientists learned more about these animals, they discovered that they actually included two different orders of reptiles, namelySaurischians (common
The authoritative British scientific journal "Nature" published on December 7, 2000 published a scientific paper published by young scientists Xu Xing, Zhou Zhonghe and Wang Youlin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, describi
The debate over whether birds originated from dinosaurs has been going on for more than a century. At present, the vast majority of paleontologists believe that birds did descend from dinosaurs, and that they originated from theropod dinosaurs. But recently, scientists Ann Bourque and Alan Fe
Tyrannosaurus rex is the most attractive and shocking dinosaur family, a large carnivorous dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous period. It is also one of the dinosaurs that scientists know the most about and discuss with great enthusiasm. The reason for this is that, in addition to bein
Recently, a new dinosaur fossil site was discovered in Chuanjie Township, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, the famous dinosaur hometown in my country. Within the 400 square meters that have been excavated, preliminary statistics of the dinosaur fossils exposed include 1 carnivorous theropod di
One of the two most authoritative scientific magazines in the world, the American "Science" magazine published a scientific research paper by Professor Russell and others, a paleontologist at the University of North Carolina, on April 21 this year, reporting on their latest The heart fossil o
Another theropod dinosaur produced in the lower part of the Yixian Formation is the unexpected Beipiaoosaurus. Its discovery was as unexpected as its species name. In 1997, Mr. Li Yinxian from the Fossil Management Office of Beipiao City donated a pile of relatively fragmented fossils to the
The Jehol Group in western Liaoning is a famous Mesozoic continental stratum in China and has always occupied an important position in the history of paleobiostratigraphy research in China. However, although this formation has produced numerous plant fossils, invertebrate fossils and fish fos
Hanauma Bay on the southern coast of Victoria, Australia is a famous source of dinosaur fossils on the Australian continent, but it is not easy to discover fossils here. Although fossils are often well preserved here, they are buried in hard sandstone, siltstone and mudstone and can only be u
At 20 degrees east longitude on the south side of the Arctic Circle, there is a group of remote islands floating lonely in the east of the Greenland Sea, cowering in the biting cold wind. This is the Spitsbergen Islands that no one pays attention to on weekdays. On August
In the 1930s, a notorious "Piltdown Incident" occurred in the field of paleoanthropology. Some people who wanted to gain fame put a human head on the lower jaw of an ape, painted it to look like a fossil, and buried it in Peeltown, England. Near Tang. They then deceived a paleoanthropologist
In the spring of 1985, scientific and technical personnel from the Sichuan Zigong Dinosaur Museum collected a relatively complete Stegosaurus fossil skeleton from Pengtang, Zhongquan Township, a suburb of Zigong City, and numbered it "ZY-1". Zigong dinosaur skin
On May 14, 1992, the staff of the Black Mountain Research Institute in Hill City, western United States, were doing their jobs as usual. Suddenly, a sound of sirens coming from far and near broke the tranquility here. Then, more than 30 FBI officers and more than 20 National Guard personnel b
The Dashanpu Fossil Site is located in the Dashanpu dinosaur fossil site in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, my country. It has attracted worldwide attention for its rich burial and complete preservation. Therefore, some scientists vividly call Dashanpu the "Dinosaur Cemetery". So, how did this
Ornithopods are an important branch of the dinosaur family. They consist of some diverse vegetarian dinosaurs and include four families: Dimetrodon, Hypsilodon, Iguanodon and Hadrosaurid. Although all ornithopod dinosaurs are vegetarian, due to their adaptation to different living environment
Since the earliest dinosaurs appeared in the Moon Valley in Argentina 228 million years ago, they have rapidly evolved, developed and spread to every corner of the earth because they were very adapted to the ecological environment at that time. In the early Jurassic Period, which lasted from
When it comes to dinosaur eggs, many people may be familiar with them. A large number of dinosaur eggs were discovered in the Xixia area of Henan Province in my country in the past few years, and many of them were smuggled abroad by fossil traffickers. What's more, some scholars claimed t