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1907年,一位在东非寻找宝石的探险家制造了恐龙发现史上最轰动的新闻。这名德国寻宝人原本一心想去那儿寻找用于镶嵌在首饰上的石榴石,但最后却在坦德古拉挖掘到了一块巨大的化石。其后在1909—1913年间,德国古生物学家雇佣了当地数百名工人,从那里挖掘出了246吨化石,他们把挖出来的化石全部运到林迪港,再把化石从那里装船运回德国。经测定,这些化石的年龄有1.5亿年,属于晚侏罗纪的蜥脚类恐龙化石,共有重龙、腕
In 1907, an explorer who sought gems in East Africa created the most sensational news in the history of dinosaurs. The German treasure-hunter had always wanted to go there looking for garnet inlaid on jewelry, but in the end digged up a huge fossil in Tandoura. Later, between 1909 and 1913, German paleontologists employed hundreds of local workers, digging out 246 tons of fossils from there, transporting all the dug fossils to the port of Lindy and loading the fossils there Back to Germany. It has been determined that these fossils are 150 million years old and belong to the Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs,