Liaoning Diorama

Article A Strange World Get ready to travel back in time. Your voyage will take you to a part of eastern Asia as it looked 130 million years ago. At the... Article Fossils from Liaoning Liaoning ("lee-ow-NING") is known for its farmland and factories-and also for some of the most important fossil beds in... Article The Liaoning Forest Welcome to the early cretaceious period. It's 130 million years ago in eastern Asia, and you are standing on the marshy shore of... Article Figuring Out Feathers Feathers turn out to be surprisingly complicated. First, there's the question of which animals have feathers. For centuries, people... Article A Feathered Tyrant Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North America around 66 million years ago. But a small tyrannosaur from the same family lived in the Liaoning... Article Preserving the Past Luckily for scientists, the environment of eastern Asia 130 million years ago was well-suited to preserving fossils. Article When Flowers First Bloomed The Liaoning forest of 130 million years ago offers us a glimpse of the world just before flowering plants became common. Today,... Article Recreating the Forest In the ancient Liaoning forest, pieces of plants fell into the lake, sank to the bottom, were buried and eventually became fossils.... Article Diorama Species List A list of species in the Liaoning diorama.