Paleozoological Muesum of China
by Rob - September 2nd, 2007.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Today, Sunday, September 2, was our last full day in Beijing. Once again, the wonderful Juana and Dede were our guides. We started with shopping (well, the women shopped — I parked myself in the English-language bookstore and browsed). Then it was off to lunch at a restaurant Juana recommended — terrific.
After that it was my turn to be indulged: we visited an electronics supermarket and then went to the Paleozoological Museum of China, which houses some of the most famous fossils in the world right now: key specimens showing that birds did indeed evolve from dinosaurs.
Robert J. Sawyer outside the museum
T. rex greets Robert J. Sawyer and Carolyn Clink
Mamenchisaurus looms over all
Tsintaosaurus, a Chinese hadrosaur
A coelacanth in a pickle
Jurassic showdown: a Chinese stegosaur vs. a theropod
And the stars of the show: the feathered dinos! Microraptor gui
Confusciusornis
Rob’s old friend Peking Man, about whom he wrote an Aurora Award-winning short story.
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site