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Long-tailed, Seed-eating Bird Fossil Discovered (20020727)Chinese ornithologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have recently announced a new fossil discovery from northeast China's Liaoning Province.  |  |
Long-tailed, Seed-eating Bird Fossil Discovered (20020727)Chinese ornithologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have recently announced a new fossil discovery from northeast China's Liaoning Province. |  |
Exhibition of relics discovered in Three Gorge area (20020721)An unidentified visitor appreciates a statue named "A Defied Bird", a rare relic made in Han Dynasty(206 B.C.--A.D. 220), at an exhibition of the historical relics discovered in the reservoir area of Three Gorge held at Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province Saturday, July 20, 2002. |  |
Unique Morphological Landscape(20020719)A giant red rock, which is considered to be formed during the geological mountain-building activity dating back 90 million years, is shown on top of a green hill in the Lijiang Autonomous County of Ethnic Naxi in southwest China's Yunnan Province, in this picture taken on July 18, 2002. A red morphological landscape consisted of thousands of spectacular peaks and cliffs has been discovered until now in an area of over 240 square kilometers in Lijiang County. (Xinhua Photo/Lin Yiguang) |  |
Caldera Lakes Found in Inner-Mongolia(20020716)The image shows one of the newly found perching caldera lakes discovered for the first time in North China's Aershan City, Inner-Mongolia in an aviatic cameraing tour of the city's touristic resources. The caldera lakes with different shapes are located at the peaches of mountains higher than 1,000 metres above the sea level and are surrounded by flourishing virgin forests. One of the caldera lakes is the cradleland of the famous Halaha River. According to the geologists, this is the densest crowd of perching caldera lakes and at the same time the biggest in number. These caldera lakes are of high value for both scientific research and tourism. (Xinhua Photo/Li Xin) |  |
Repair Dinosaur Fossils(20020716)This recently taken image shows experts identifying every pieces of dinosaur fossil in the workroom of the biggest dinosaur fossils repairing project going on in Guangxi Nature Museum. The fossils were discovered in August, 2001 at Liubang Village, Fusui County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Southwest China. This, according to the experts, is the first time that early Cretaceous period dinosaur framework fossils are found in South China. Presently, more than 60 pieces of fossils are identified as ribs, thighbones, phalanges, etc. The longest rib fossil measured 1.6 metres. After six months' work, one-third fossils have been repaired, and the whole project's completion requires another year's efforts. (Xinhua Photo/Chen Ruihua) |  |
More Than 20,000 Slips Found in China(20020715)This undated photo reveals bamboo slips from Qin Dynasty ( 221BC- 206BC) unearthed recently from the ruins of an ancient city in central China's Hunan province. Experts said the find with a gross of more than 20,000 inscribed bamboo slips was the largest of its kind and would offer more clues for archaeological research about Qin dynasty's society. Chained bamboo slips served once as writing paper in ancient China. (Xinhua Photo/Zhao Zhongzhi) |  |
Important Archeological Discovery in Hunan (20020628)The image shows two ancient three-foot pottery vessels found in Chu tomb dating back to the period of Warring States (476-221B.C.)while many local poeple look on in Changsha, the capital of south China's Hunan province June 27, 2002.The tomb first discovered in last April was the largest-ever one of Chu tombs, from which have been excavated over 100 precious relics including untensils made of jade, wood, bamboo,bronze, etc. (Xinhua Photo/Yin Jusheng ) |  |
Important Archeological Discovery in Changsha (20020628)Archeologists disinter a Chu tomb dating back to the period of Warring States (476-221B.C.)while many local poeple look on in Changsha, the capital of south China's Hunan peovince June 27, 2002.The tomb first discovered in last April was the largest-ever one of Chu tombs, from which have been excavated over 100 precious relics including untensils made of jade, wood, bamboo,bronze, etc. (Xinhua Photo/Yin Jusheng) |  |
China's Dino-Bird Fossils Arrive in London (20020523)Employees of the British National Natural History Museum carefully move a sample of Dino-Bird fossil in London May 21, 2002. The fossil, with 12 others of Dino-Bird which was the 120 million-year-old bird believed to have derived from meat-eating dinosaurs, arrived in London May 20, to be on display to the public on July 18. The fossils were discovered in northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Xinhua Photo/Wang Dingchang) |  |
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