Shantou City

South Australian fishermen discovered a huge ancient vertebrate fossils?

expert verification of actually weathered rock

days, Shantou City, Nanao County fishermen Chen Xiong accidentally discovered a huge ancient vertebrate fossils similar to the news of the island travels uproar in South Australia. The day before yesterday, the reporter from the South Australian Museum Huang Yingtao County Department understands that this piece resembles the spine of the fossils is weathered rock.

It is understood, Chen Xiong in Nanao County, engaged in farming marine cloud Australia, some time ago, sea waves are big, Chen Xiong foam floats for aquaculture was Langjuan to the rocks of the shore. Chen Xiong pick floats in the rubble pile was found when a look, \6, \After the stone was found, Chen Xiong extraordinary ask, but no one can identify its \Chen Xiong very much hope that the experts for it to verify its validity.

day before yesterday, the reporter contacted the county of South Australia's Curator Huang Yingtao History Museum of Coastal Defence, told reporters that when he first saw the stone, also shines, \lumps, the surface is very smooth, and the surrounding rock surface looks very different, and it has coarse and refined look, there are some holes, exactly like an animal's spine. Huang Yingtao spine similar to this fossil was found forced open the stone, which is a stone texture, That sure this is not a fossil, but a natural weathering of rock.

Yangcheng Evening News reporter learned that, in Nanao Island, this is not the first time that the shape of the weathered rock, and most of the weathered rock occur in the sea not far away. Huang Yingtao told reporters that he County deer in South Australia before Aberdeen had a similar hole found the stone of ancient petrified wood, like tree rings above the ring there, was later confirmed, that is the result of weathering. He said that South Australia is surrounded by sea, often find some strange weathered rock, which is the rock in the solar radiation, air, water and living under a common result.

Yang Yuan

reporter, correspondent Zhang Jinsheng, millet photo coverage