HONG KONG (AP) – Officials in Hong Kong said yesterday they have discovered dinosaur fossils for the first time in a remote and uninhabited geopark.
Experts initially confirmed the fossils were part of a large dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, about 145 million to 66 million years ago, a statement said.
They will need to conduct further studies to confirm the species of the dinosaur.
Experts speculate that the dinosaur was likely buried by sand and gravel after its death before it was later washed to the surface by a large flood, and subsequently buried again at the discovery site, it said.
The conservation department had in March informed its Antiquities and Monuments Office about a sedimentary rock containing substances suspected to be vertebrate fossils.
The place where the fossils were found was closed to the public from yesterday until further notice to facilitate future investigations and excavations.
The fossils will be on display at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui starting tomorrow.
