HONG KONG — Officials in Hong Kong said on Wednesday they had discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, uninhabited island that's part of a geopark.
HONG KONG — Officials in Hong Kong said on Wednesday they had discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, uninhabited island that's part of a geopark.Experts have initially confirmed the fossils were part of a large dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, about 145 million to 66 million years ago, the government said in a statement. They will need to conduct further studies to confirm the dinosaur species.
The government said the conservation department in March informed its Antiquities and Monuments Office about a sedimentary rock containing substances suspected to be vertebrate fossils. The rock was found on Port Island in Hong Kong's Unesco Global Geopark in the city's northeastern waters.The government has commissioned mainland Chinese experts to conduct field investigations, it added.
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