The museum was built in 1958 and its total area of 10,000 square meters is divided into five exhibition halls: Mineral Resources; Earth History; Stratigraphy and Paleontology; Rocks and Minerals ...
A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...
Even if recovered, illegally removed fossils have diminished scientific value, says Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing: "If it isn't ...
In the early 1930s, before Japanese forces swept across China, Palace Museum authorities packed up many pieces - including imperial thrones - and moved them out of Beijing to other cities.
China has become the country with the most dinosaur fossil discovery sites in the world, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ... University of Geosciences Beijing, while dinosaur fossils ...