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...year, we would love to do it again and prove that we really are the strongest team in the Ivy League. It’s a strong statement, but it’s our chance to back it up.” —Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu
...hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different parts of China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu houses the world's largest collection of dinosaur fossils...
...Zheng declines to give an estimate for what percentage of Tianyu's collection could be fakes, but says he and his staff have started to label - but not remove - those that have proven not to be the real deal. To cope with the drastically shrinking market, Zheng says the museum will gradually shift its focus to scientific research, cooperating with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to study dinosaurs and early birds. After all, Zheng says, it was never about the money. "I don't care for Mercedes," he says when asked why he drives a battered VW Santana...
...Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu