Visitors study animal fossils donated by a museum in northeast China’s
Liaoning Province at Shanghai Natural History Museum yesterday.
The
museum received 11 precious animal fossils from the Jizangtang Fossil
Museum in Chaoyang City, including two top-level protected animal
fossils — a birdlike dinosaur (inset) and a Sanyan toad.
The dinosaur
fossil still retains the feathers on its legs and tail. It is the
earliest known feathered dinosaur and marks a key evolution process from
dinosaur to bird, according to the museum.