
Scientists in China claim to have discovered the largest field of fossilized dinosaur bones ever, in the north-eastern province of Shandong. The researchers, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have so far recovered more than 7,600 dinosaur bones from the trench, most of which date back to the Cretaceous. According to this article on the BBC's website,
The full details of the findings have not yet been published. But they are reported to include tyrannosaurus and ankylosaurus bones, as well as what could be the largest duck-billed dinosaur ever excavated.
The discoveries are expected to shed light on how the dinosaurs became extinct around the same geological period and the first details are to be published later in the year.
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