Admire the dinosaur museum in China

Arriving at the Museum of Natural History of China this time, you will see firsthand the full dinosaur skeletons built from the pieces of fossil bones found.

China excavated dinosaurs since the 1960s and more than 50 tons of fossils were found.

Arriving at the Museum of Natural History of China this time, you will see firsthand the full dinosaur skeletons built from the pieces of fossil bones found. In it, there are old species as we know them, and there are also quite new species.

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" Guanlong belongs to the tyrannosaur family, but has a strange crest on the top of the head ," said Professor Xu Xing. Guanlong, Chinese means Dragon with five-colored crest, is a genus of zooplankton living in China during the Late Jurassic period, about 95 million years ago.

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Tarbosaurus is a genus of Theropoda of the Tyrannosauridae family that once thrived in Asia in the 70 to 65 million years ago, entering the White Cretaceous. Fossils are found in Mongolia and China.

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Microraptor is a small genus of dromaeosaurid four-winged dinosaurs, living in the Cretaceous Period. About two dozen preserved fossil samples were discovered in Liaoning, China.

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Meilong is a very small dinosaur, the adults only about 40 cm tall. They live in the early period of the Cretaceous period. Unlike the regular dinosaurs, Meilong has a very similar sleeping pattern to modern birds.

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Professor Xu Xing said: " Limusaurus is not only the first dinosaur to live in the Jurassic period, but also the first species to shrink two front limbs. " Limusaurus is found in western China.

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Incisivosaurus is found in Liaoning province. They are herbivores and have the same front teeth as the rabbits today.

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The gigant gigantoraptor lived about 70 million years ago. Adults are about 8 meters long and weigh 2.2 tons.

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Beipiaosaurus lived in the first period of the Cretaceous period, 126 million years ago. A significant number of fossil bones of this species are found including: skull fragments, lower jaw, cervix, four lumbar vertebrae, a caudal vertebra, shoulder bone and a pelvis complete with backleg.

Update 17 December 2018
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