Dinosaur fossils have been discovered for the first time in Hong Kong, on a remote island in the financial capital’s countryside.
The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse of rocks in the northeastern waters of the city, by Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department in March, the government said in a statement Wednesday. Researchers have determined that the bone fossils likely originated from a “large aged dinosaur” from the Cretaceous period –– an era more than 145 million to 66 million years ago that followed the Jurassic period.
Experts in paleontology say the landmark discovery is a big deal for Hong Kong, a city with a complex geological history and ever-changing weather patterns. “The only way we can find dinosaur fossils is if there is a bit on the surface that we can see,” Michael Pittman, an assistant professor of life sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong told CNN, adding that the remains may have fully eroded if researchers arrived later.
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