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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone can probably fill me in here. There are always so many wondrous finds coming out of China. I think I once heard why, but I can't exactly remember why. Is it because of the exposed striations in sandstone faults x difficulty to develop in the desert x lack of humidity x overall mass of area that has given rise to this? I am pretty sure someone can give me a clearer picture here somewhere between a paleontologist or a geologist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of wondrous finds in China are because they made it the fuck up.

It's a meme in science circles to double check studies that come from China.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I know that there are a series of faux-findings. Because I believe I read one in a book...? About chicken bones being used. And I know that there is a black fossil market including fake fossils. But the west went through their own bone wars and it makes me think that perhaps this is just an alternative of that. But I think there are so few great discoveries here in America exclusively by this point on account of everything being so moist and developed (although I know bogs can preserve things). I believe all the latest findings coming out of China are all from a desert portion of the country. And that perhaps being under-developed in that space and perhaps faults being exposed by say...earthquakes or something make the striation more visible which in turn leads to more fossils being detectable? I am not sure though, because I know very little about China as a whole and am not a geologist or a paleontologist.