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A restaurant in southwestern China was discovered to be harboring ancient history, as dinosaur footprints—dating back 100 million years—were found in the establishment's outdoor courtyard.
Footprints of two sauropods, a type of dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous period, were found along several stones in the outdoor courtyard at the restaurant in Leshan, Sichuan province according to paleontologists. The restaurant previously had been a farm and the footprints had been buried by layers of dirt to shield them from weather damage.
[...] Sauropods' species include the popularized brontosaurus and were known for their long necks and tails. They're considered to be the largest animals ever to walk the Earth—extending the length of three school buses—according to research by the University of California, Berkeley. Xing noted that the footprints of the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth found in the restaurant measured around 26 feet in body length.
The find in Sichuan is also rare because it dates back to the Cretaceous period, believed to be a glory era for the dinosaurs by many paleontologists.
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Saturday July 23 2022, @01:04AM (2 children)
All those years the people thought they were eating chicken!
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday July 23 2022, @06:37AM
"It just walked into the kitchen all by itself, honest! Try some of this char sui, it's to die for!".
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday July 23 2022, @08:21AM
Chicken are dinosaurs. [birdlife.org]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday July 23 2022, @03:17PM
I thought brontosauri were found not to have existed, but resulted from some modeller mistakenly putting the wrong skeletal head on the wrong skeletal body?
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Saturday July 23 2022, @03:37PM (3 children)
One whole photo of the actual thing they are referring to?!? Albeit not in situ like normal people would provide.
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Saturday July 23 2022, @03:38PM (2 children)
please ignore that unruly 'n' which went where it wasn't supposed to
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday July 24 2022, @05:47AM (1 child)
Thanks for drawing my attention to it; I might have missed it otherwise. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by HammeredGlass on Sunday July 24 2022, @03:58PM
I am nothing if not self-effacing