Why is Chaoyang, Liaoning, a place that fascinates all archaeologists?

Haven't arrived in Chaoyang, I heard that this place is? Where did the first bird take off? 、? Where does the first flower bloom? .

Chaoyang? This is a name that is easily misunderstood. When most people hear this name for the first time, they will associate it with Beijing. Even when I posted the travel content about Chaoyang in my circle of friends, my friends left messages asking me if I had gone to Chaoyang District in Beijing for business.

[wry smile]

Chaoyang, a small city with a total area of only 20 thousand square kilometers, is located at the junction of Mongolia, Liaoning and Hebei provinces. I didn't know until I came here that 665,438+062 ancient relics, sites and tombs had been discovered here.

6 162, what is this concept, that is, there is a saying: look at Tianjin in a hundred years, Beijing in a thousand years, Xi' an in three thousand years, and Chaoyang in five thousand years? This is really no exaggeration!

In the 1990s, the oldest seed plant was discovered in Chaoyang? Liaoning ancient fruit? The oldest feathered animal to date? Loong bird? They, one is the ancestor of flowers and the other is the ancestor of birds.

This is a discovery that shocked the whole world.

Not only that, Chaoyang also unearthed a large number of various fossils. There are many kinds of fossils here in Chaoyang, really many. Most of the fossils of birds, fish, dinosaurs, insects and several kinds of fossils came from1.500 million years ago.

1.500 million years, what is this concept? That is to say, if a person can live 100 years old, this is10.5 million life cycles.

It's amazing, amazing, shocking. I can't describe the shock brought by this number. Where were you before? Dinosaur Park? I can only look at the model in the morning, but in Chaoyang, it's all true here, which means that fossils are not rare at all!

I still remember the excitement when I saw so many fossils in Chaoyang!

There is a Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark in Chaoyang, Liaoning. Where is the world? The first flower? And then what? The first bird? .

After I went to this park, I felt extremely shocked. Chaoyang city, Liaoning province, was innocent at that time? Fossil Capital of the World? .

Look at the harvest of Chaoyang, Liaoning:

As Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark is the only in-situ fossil park in the world, we can see a lot here? Really? Like this huge geological layer? Slice? Palace is by far the largest stratigraphic section and the most intuitive and primitive geological section excavation site in Asia.

Hundreds of millions of years of geological evolution layers are vividly displayed in front of us, excavated and preserved in situ, without any movement. The huge signboard marked with the year, name and introduction of each floor amazed my brother.

This is a dinosaur egg.

It's true, dear. It's not an imitation. It's a real dinosaur fossil. I've never seen it.

Archaeologists say that the fossils here are so complete and rich because a sudden volcanic eruption took away these creatures in an instant? Is it wrapped? Buried, so when we look closely at these fossils, they are all lifelike, and living in the same room with creatures over 100 million years old, it feels very dreamy.

This is very interesting. Is this an animal fossil with a nice name? Likara condoms? But you never expected it.

Is it now? Xiao Qiang? The ancestors of cockroaches.

Well, you see this is a very humble kind of wood, right? But it has a history of more than 100 million years. Is it the ancestor of ancestors? Silicified wood? .

What is silicified wood? Is a tree, buried in the ground, after a complex geological process, the formation of fossils. The wood fossils in Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark basically retain the original appearance of a tree, with rings, textures, scars and tree holes. They have kept secrets hundreds of millions of years ago until now.

Let's look at the real dinosaur fossils. This is not a model. Oh, it's true. Really? Dinosaurs.

From March 65438 to March 0973, a drilling crew worker discovered the first dinosaur fossil in Chaoyang, and scientists from China began to spread all over the mountains here? Looking for dragons? The process.

In the following decades, Chaoyang district was like opening one? Fossil treasure house? Similarly, one amazing discovery after another is presented to the world.

There are many dinosaur fossils here, only dinosaurs are in Chaoyang. Oh, not at all. Moreover, it is very interesting that the dinosaurs, birds, insects and all living things here, although some fly in the sky, some swim in the water and some run on the ground, are all at the same address level. Do you know why?

Archaeologists say that this is because the geological changes in Chaoyang were particularly frequent more than 100 million years ago. When the volcano erupts, some toxic substances are released. First, birds are smoked into the lake, and then volcanic ash buries them together, so they will be together forever.

Shall we see two? Together? The shape of.

This is a little dragon and a turtle. It can be a story, and the content of the story is up to you.

This is parrot-billed dragon, a petite and lovely dinosaur. Compared with those giant dinosaurs, they are as small and numerous as ants. People say this is a love story about a little dragon. They were hugging each other when the volcano erupted. There is a poem about them:

Forever love

A mountain can suddenly overturn.

The earth may also crack and collapse in an instant.

Across space and time

voicelessly

Solidified love totem

I used to love each other.

As intoxicated and gentle as water and wind.

Never leave or give up/never say goodbye.

Red and yellow calendar

Witness the eternity of love

Are they always like this? Together? Let's leave eternity in the world and love in our hearts.