the new paradise of paleontologists

Is China the New Land of Dinosaurs? In Yunnan, the specialty is the Lufengosaurus, a giant eight meters long, herbivorous. For the past few months, a team of researchers has carefully returned and cleaned up the red earth. She came across two incredibly well-preserved skeletons. “Fossils are very precious archaeological resources. So when you discover a piece like this, you hasten to extract it to prevent the wind or the light of day from damaging them.”, explains You Hailu, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

The first dinosaur was discovered in this region in 1938. Since then, more than a hundred fossilized skeletons have been reconstructed in this laboratory, with the greatest precision, by paleontologists like Zhao Qi. These dinosaurs were numerous in Asia. Some lived over 200 million years ago, at the start of the Jurassic period. This would be the case for these latest findings. Most of the Lufengosaurus have been found with their heads facing east, a mystery that remains unsolved.