Dinosaur fossils have been found in Hong Kong for the first time, although the age and species have not yet been determined. They were discovered on Hong Kong’s remote, north-eastern Port Island, where suspected vertebrate fossils were first spotted in sedimentary rock in March.
According to Hong Kong’s Development Bureau, experts from Hong Kong and mainland China identified the fossils as belonging to a large dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, around 145 million to 66 million years ago.
The island has been closed to visitors while excavation continues, but the fossils found so far will soon go on public display.
