New dinosaur fossils discovered in Guangdong

时间：2007-04-19 02:31:22

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Chinanews, Beijing, Apr. 17 – According to People’s Daily, the local museum in Heyuan, Guangdong Province announced last Friday that its experts had newly discovered tyrannosaurus and mamenchisaurus fossils in a construction site. It is the first time that tyrannosaurus fossils have been discovered in south China.

 

Heyuan, located in the mountainous region of Guangdong, has witnessed the discovery of thousands of dinosaur1 eggs, 11 dinosaur skeletons and 168 fossils of dinosaur footprints. The local museum has a collection of 13 thousand dinosaur eggs, and in 2005, the city was honored with the title of “the dinosaur cradle of China” by China Bureau of Geological Survey.

 

Experts also said that currently there are still thousands of dinosaur fossils waiting for excavation2, as the city doesn’t have enough money to preserve all these fossils.

 

In the museum, our reporter saw all of these fossils were treated as common stones, and the exhibition hall covered only 200 sq.m. Many fossils have had to be put away in the warehouses3.

 

Some fossils are broken, which according to an official from the museum, that it was caused by explosions on in the construction site. Because few of them were excavated4 by archeologists, many of them are in poor condition.

 
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1 dinosaur xuSxp     
n.恐龙
参考例句：
  • Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
  • He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。
2 excavation RiKzY     
n.挖掘，发掘；被挖掘之地
参考例句：
  • The bad weather has hung up the work of excavation.天气不好耽误了挖掘工作。
  • The excavation exposed some ancient ruins.这次挖掘暴露出一些古遗迹。
3 warehouses 544959798565126142ca2820b4f56271     
仓库，货栈( warehouse的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
  • Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
4 excavated 3cafdb6f7c26ffe41daf7aa353505858     
v.挖掘( excavate的过去式和过去分词 )；开凿；挖出；发掘
参考例句：
  • The site has been excavated by archaeologists. 这个遗址已被考古学家发掘出来。
  • The archaeologists excavated an ancient fortress. 考古学家们发掘出一个古堡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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