Chasing the dragons: Stunning fossils from Liaoning province have created a boom for Chinese palaeontologists and local farmers alike
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Palaeontologists studying fossils from Liaoning province must deal not only with the illegal fossil trade but also the complexities of provincial politics.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Feathered fossils cause a flap in museums
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The mysterious background of Chinese dinosaur fossils displayed in an exhibition in North America is discussed. Experts and Chinese officials claim that some of the fossils must have smuggled form China and sold illegally.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Awash with fossils
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The Middle Awash team identified new hominid characteristics that flesh out the evolutionary track from ape to man. Middle Awash team has devised a sophisticated collection methods to sort out the materials collected from the different places where the researchers mark a promising area with surveyors' lines, then crawl across it shoulder to shoulder, removing every fossil found.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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