A customer discovers in the restaurant the footprints of a 100 million-year-old dinosaur

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A customer committed to a set meal in a restaurant in southwest China discovered a group of footprints in the stone floor of the courtyard where they were dining.

The signs on the floor of the restaurant's outdoor patio aroused the curiosity of the customer interested in prehistoric artifacts, so the restaurant management requested the authorities' help.

After calling the relevant authorities to follow up, paleontologists discovered that the restaurant's courtyard in fact contained a group of footprints, which they estimated belonged to two dinosaurs that walked the planet about 100 million years ago.

Paleontologist Dr. Lida Shing was one of the experts who were called to investigate.

He told CNN that her team used a 3D scanner to make sure the sauropods left their mark.

"All these dinosaurs came out of eggs that were the size of a grapefruit," said Riley Black, a paleontologist and science writer. ".

Although the time sauropods could walk on land has long passed, this discovery marks an exciting time for paleontological research.

Black cautioned that "fossil remains are still found all around us."

"Even sometimes when I walk around Salt Lake City, a lot of the sidewalks we have there are made of early Jurassic sandstone. And though I haven't seen a dinosaur there yet, you'll see little traces that were made by protomammals, scorpions, and spiders that... It was crawling all over these dunes. So there's really a whole sort of urban palaeontology."

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