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谁也没有料到,在默默无闻的辽宁西部贫瘠的土地下面竟蕴藏着一座令世界震惊的古生物化石宝库。就象当年发现秦始皇陵兵马俑一样,1987年,辽西的一位农民偶然在山上挖到一块带有凸案的石板,闻讯而来的专家鉴定是一具完整的鸟化石。此后,更有价值的发现接踵而至,“圣贤孔子鸟”、“中国始祖鸟”、“原始中华龙鸟”……时间越推越远,动摇并取代了距今1.5亿年的德国始祖鸟作为世界鸟类始祖的统治地位。块块鸟化石的发现如石击水,使世界上对鸟类起源和早期演化研究在几乎停滞了一个世纪之后又有新的飞跃,吸引着众多中外有关专家学者相继来到辽西。同时,中外化石贩子们也争先恐后地向辽西云集,足迹遍布村村户户。
No one expected that there was a treasure trove of ancient fossils alarmed by the world just below the obscure land in the obscure western Liaoning. Just as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses was discovered in the same year, in 1987, a farmer in western Liaoning accidentally dug a piece of stone slab with a convex case in the mountains. The expert appraisal of the hearing came as a complete bird fossil. Since then, even more valuable discoveries ensued, with “Sage Confucius”, “Chinese Archeopteryx” and “Primitive Chinese Dragonbird” ... the longer the farther the time, the shaken and replaced the 150,000-year-old German Archeopteryx as the world The dominance of bird ancestors. The discovery of fossil bird fossils such as stone hit the water, so that the world of bird origins and early evolution of a century after the almost stagnant and new leap, attracting many Chinese and foreign experts and scholars have come to western Liaoning. At the same time, Chinese and foreign fossil-seekers are also vying with each other to gather in western Liaoning with footprints all over the village.