Dinosaur Fossils nearby Lufeng County

You will see the world's largest number of preserved and most complete dinosaur fossils, in Yuanmou, you can not only witness the remains of Yuanmou apeman living 1.7 million years ago but also through the forest soil surface Cangsang found the change and its causes.

The history of dinosaurs is 150 million years old, while the history of Human beings is only about 200 million years, compare the history of the dinosaurs to the history of the human beings, Obviously, in the entire history of the Earth the history of mankind is much shorter than the history of dinosaurs, if the life of a dinosaur is only one year long, then a human being lives only for five days.

In 1938, a Chinese geologist, Professor Bian Lu Feng, came in Lufeng, he was searching for salt and gypsum mines in eight meters thick red soil, but instead, he found so many Dragon' Bones, as how the local farmer called dinasours fossiles.

Lufeng dinosaurs lived 180 million years ago in the late Triassic, but later for some reason they suddenly disappeared one million years ago. They are an important link of the origination and evolution of dinosaurs in the early Mesozoic stage of the earth.