Chinese experts and scientists from the United States have begun to reconstruct a dinosaur skeleton following the establishment of a laboratory to assemble fossils of ancient vertebrates in northeast China's Jilin Province.
Mason Jane Milam, an expert on fossil restoration from Harvard and a professor of paleontology at Providence College, will work together with Doctor Zan Shuqin from Jilin University to build up the skeleton from fossilized dinosaur bones. They will also bring together the first group of experts in the field in Jilin.
Jilin is a province with abundant dinosaur fossils. Fossilized dinosaur eggs and bones have been found in the stratum of the Cretaceous Period in Jilin since the 1980s.
In 2000, more than 300 fossils of a rare species of dinosaurs and 60 fossilized dinosaur eggs have been excavated in the province. These fossils have been stored for about two years due to a lack of experts to put them together.
(Xinhua News Agency July 24, 2002)
