Liaoning Diorama
Part of the Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries exhibition.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Figuring Out Feathers
Feathers turn out to be surprisingly complicated. First, there's the question of which animals have feathers. For centuries, people...
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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...
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Preserving the Past
Luckily for scientists, the environment of eastern Asia 130 million years ago was well-suited to preserving fossils.
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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,...
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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....
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Diorama Species List
A list of species in the Liaoning diorama.