As the British magazine Nature again published China's discovery on dinosaur, the western area of Liaoning Province becomes a world-renowned "dinosaur village," a series of discoveries by Chinese scientists made China one of the world research centers.
In recent years, the celebrated Nature magazine successively reported a series of important dinosaur discoveries in the western area of Liaoning Province. This has aroused great attention in the world.
The previous discoveries were those carnivorous dinosaurs, but this time, Nature reported the herbivorous dinosaurs from Liaoning. It is the first time to show that the research has gained a further progress in this aspect, and the province has also become a hotspot in the world for dinosaur researches.
According to report from Chinese Academy of Sciences, as an up-and-coming latent in the field of dinosaur research, Dr. Xu Xing has made a series of achievements in the study of varieties of dinosaurs, indicating some being the origin of birds.
Some of his essays were published on British, American, Canadian, German and other countries' academic periodicals.
In 2001, Dr. Xu got the state outstanding youth science fund. So far, he has found and named 12 kinds of dinosaurs with 9 essays published in the magazine "Nature."
(People?s Daily March 22, 2002)
