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Article: China builds giant dam to protect dinosaur fossils
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 22, 2007
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China builds giant dam to protect dinosaur fossils
HARBIN, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Workers have spent three years
building a huge earth dam to protect valuable dinosaur bones from
being washed away by one of China's most famous rivers.
A horde of dinosaur bones lies buried in a mountain that sits
right on the river that forms the boundary between China and Russia -
the Heilongjiang River.
So far, thousands of dinosaur fossil bones have been unearthed
from the mountain and assembled into 13 dinosaur skeletons, which are
now exhibited in several museums nationwide.
Archaeologists believe there are enough fossil bones buried in the
mountain to put together at least 100 more dinosaur skeletons.Every ...
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