|
|
Article: LARGE CACHE OF DINOSAUR BONES FOUND IN CHINA.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 25, 1997
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Daily News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Malcolm W. Browne The New York Times
An international team of paleontologists announced Thursday that a fabulous trove of dinosaur fossils had been discovered in a remote region of northeast China.
Hundreds of major finds at the site include the first fossilized internal organs of dinosaurs ever seen, and the first fossil of a dinosaur containing a mammal it had just eaten.
Many of the specimens excavated from the site seem to bear on the question of kinship between dinosaurs and birds, although the wealth of enigmatic fossils seems more likely at this stage to inflame debates over the origin of birds than to settle them.
Among ...