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Article: Expert says China was the first to collect dinosaur fossils
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 28, 2005
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Expert says China was the first to collect dinosaur fossils
GUIYANG, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- China was probably the first country
in the world to collect dinosaur fossils, a scientist has said.
"The Yue Kingdom in today's southeastern China had dinosaur
fossils in 494 B.C.," said Sun Erhu, a research fellow with the
Chengdu Institute of Biology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In that year, the invading Wu Kingdom sieged Yue Kingdom's capital
Kuaiji and captured a "mammoth skeleton" that had to be carried with
a cart, ...