Inner Mongolia is building the world’s biggest dinosaur park, China National Radio reported on December 15. The park will be built in the border city of Erenhot where fossils of a giant raptor were discovered in 2005.
The landmark of the new park is a 20 meter high sculpture of two dinosaurs , which the city claims is the largest steel sculpture in the world. |
In the far north of China on the border with Mongolia, Erenhot was once the home of dinosaurs. Grassland today, in the Cretaceous Period 70,000,000 years ago, it was a paradise of lakes, marshes, and thick forests. More than 20 kinds of dinosaurs flourished there but the most famous is gigantoraptor erlianensis, an 8 meter-long birdlike predator that made the headlines in the New York Times when it was discovered in 2005.
The landmark of the new park is a 20 meter high sculpture of two dinosaurs, which the city claims is the largest steel sculpture in the world.
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