This Day, That Year

Item from Dec 7, 1985, in China Daily: A museum worker brushes away soil from one of the dinosaur skeletons at Zigong, Sichuan province. A dinosaur museum, the first of its kind in China, is to open next February in Deshanpu, 11 kilometers northwest of Zigong.

The museum is located on top of a dinosaur fossil site where 180 skeletons, including up to 17 species, have been found. They are believed to be about 150 million years old, dating from the Jurassic Period.

Since its establishment in 1986, the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Sichuan province has been one of the world's top dinosaur museums, attracting millions of visitors from home and abroad.