Official hails discovery ‘of great significance’ on Port Island, with remains of as yet unknown species set to go on display in a shopping district on Friday
Photograph: Hong Kong’s Antiquities and Monuments Office/APPhotograph: Hong Kong’s Antiquities and Monuments Office/APHong Kong officials say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time, on a remote and uninhabited island.
The rock was found on Port Island in the Unesco Global Geopark in the city’s north-eastern waters, and the fossils are to be put on display on Friday at one of Hong Kong’s shopping districts.Secretary for development, Bernadette Linn Hon-ho, said: “The discovery is of great significance and provides new evidence for research on palaeoecology in Hong Kong.”
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