There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It was thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists ...

Incredibly Preserved Fossils Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not ...

Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape ... Dating back to the age of dinosaurs, the Yixian fossils remained untouched until the 1980s, when local ...

It’s one thing to find fossils in a remote field, sandwiched between millennia-old mountains and dried up riverbeds, and quite another to find them in the midst of sprawling, hypermodern ...

Pittman also noted that the discovery of body fossils is rare regionally, as skeletal remains are not typically found in southern China, known instead for its dinosaur eggs. Since 2020 ...

In addition to Argentina, Canada and the United States, China is one of the four main countries in the world for both finding and researching dinosaur fossils, said Michael Pittman, an assistant ...

Dinosaur fossils, outlined in red ... He adds that skeletal remains as a whole are rare across southern China, a region that is instead known for discoveries of dinosaur eggs.

In addition to Argentina, Canada and the United States, China is one of the four main countries in the world for both finding and researching dinosaur fossils, said Michael Pittman, an assistant ...