A life spent working with dinosaurs

After four decades, retiring fossil expert concerned over lack of successors

Chongqing's Museum of Natural History boasts one of the largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the country and since 1977, Zhu Songlin and his team have worked hard to preserve nearly 200 dinosaur skeletons.

Zhu, 59, started work at the museum after finishing high school. He became one of China's first dinosaur fossil repair technicians almost by accident, after a large cache of prehistoric remains were discovered in Southwest China in the 1970s.