[*http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/articles/2013-01-26/201301251359104896657.html]
One afternoon after my usual 口语 class we decided we had time to go for a short walk up the mountain behind my house to look for the small contemporary art community I'd heard about where a young Australian artist's exhibition was in its last days. Our expectations were a little disappointed, however we were not let down by the larger than life street signage in the area. I dubbed the North Jinding Mountain Street sign adornment the 'Yunnanosaurus' only to return home and find that such a creature did once prowl the region just northwest of Kunming in Lufeng county where the remains of 20 incomplete skeletons have been found[1]. In fact according to another source[2] since 1938, 24 categories 33 species and hundreds of complete dinosaur fossils have been unearthed in the area.
From conversational Chinese via bad art to early jurassic period prosauropod dinosaur remains in one small leap: life seems to be always thus here in Kunming. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnanosaurus [2] http://www.toptrip.cc/destination/spot/yn_lufeng.htm [Animatronics thanks to Paul Hider - Kunming friend, classmate and resident, blogger and science fiction nut] |
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