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Chapter 125 Butterfly Dragon

"Dear audience friends, good evening everyone."

In the well-decorated room, Fu Haitao was well-dressed.

"After nearly a month of excavation, we finally made an increasingly sensational discovery!"

During the period when he went out to explore fossils, Fu Haitao had a live broadcast every three or four days, sometimes telling anecdotes about the scientific expedition team during his speeches.

Sometimes I just chat with the fans in the live broadcast room, play small games, or go to the live broadcast room of other beautiful female anchors to make room rounds.

The main reason why he can be so relaxed in the arduous exploration operations is that Fu Haitao doesn't go to the ground very much.

The excavation work was all handed over to the members of the research institute and the intern students. Fu Haitao just watched from the side and listened to Wu Qianshan's lectures.

This time, the Fuzhou Research Institute is leading the fossil exploration. Even if they don't do it, the final academic achievements will all belong to Fu Haitao and Wu Qianshan.

Outsiders only think that the company can't pay back its capital by spending money to open a research institute. In fact, there is quite a lot of oil and water in it.

The money for selling fossils is another matter. With a large number of precious fossil specimens in hand, other scholars who want to study and write decent papers can only borrow them, and the rent can be called by the Fuzhou Institute.

More critical is the "homotype" fossil.

After discovering a new species, the discoverer can number a fossil and define it as a holotype, which can be understood as the most correct and orthodox fossil template.

There are doubts about similar fossils discovered in the future, and all of them are based on the holotype.

The few holotype fossils in Fu Zhou's research institute, together with the holotype fossils in Wu Qianshan's research institute, have continuously brought them a steady stream of wealth.

They don't want to stop there, but to devour more precious fossils.

It is difficult to discover new species, and difficult to obtain holotype fossils. At this time, Fu Haitao showed a very rare dinosaur fossil.

"Look, everyone, this is an odd pterosaur! The third odd pterosaur fossil in the world."

As a member of the Ornithidae family, Qiptera has important clues about the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.

The results shown by Fu Haitao made the barrage in the live broadcast room burst into exclamation.

"That's why everyone must believe in qualified and well-established research institutes, such as Yu Xian, a fossil hunter who didn't know where he got out, digs up Protoceratops and Stegosaurus that can be seen everywhere, and shows off everywhere."

Fu Haitao spoke many words of belittling Xian, never mentioning that the fossil of the second-ranked Qiptera in the world was discovered by Yu Xian.

Water friend A: That Yu Xian still said that he wanted to continue digging fossils in the cold Xinjiang plateau.

Water friend B: Yes, it’s really funny. The weather in Hanjiang Plateau is several degrees below zero in broad daylight.

Water friend C: That’s right, the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, if I really want to go inside, I’m afraid it’s stuck inside.

Fu Haitao and the fans who supported him in the live broadcast room were not expected to be idle in the depths of the cold Xinjiang plateau, but at most hid in some city hotel on the plateau.

They were wildly wrong about idle behavior, but right about the bad weather.

The sky was gloomy, and heavy snow fell down one after another. The place where the plateau wolf ate the corpse yesterday, the snow covered the instep.

"It's time to hurry."

If the snow was heavier and the weather was colder, Yu Xian would not be able to bear it.

The ground is covered in thick snow, and the search ability of Xunlong Atlas will also be limited. What's more, the temperature will drop any lower and the laptop may be damaged.

It is almost impossible to search outside in the follow-up, and the camp has to be changed to the inside of the cemetery. By the way, see if there are dinosaur fossils brought in by the ancients as decorations in the cemetery.

After finalizing the follow-up action strategy, Yu Xian took out the cursed shovel and dug at the point where the pointer was pointing down.

As a game prop, the cursed shovel is connected to the system, and Yu Xian can feel the feedback of the shovel delicately, and the fineness of the digging action is much higher than that of ordinary tools.

噹

There was a crisp impact sound, and the cursed shovel knocked lightly on the rock surface, and Yu Xian knew that he was in big trouble.

Fossils are likely to be hidden under the rock slab, or wrapped in a large piece of surrounding rock.

I don't know what kind of dinosaur fossil it is for the time being, so I have to find a way to peel it off.

Digging up a larger area of ​​slush, Yu Xian tried to move left and right, and found that within one or two square meters, the arrow on the dragon-hunting map was generally facing downwards.

It shows that the fossil covers such a large area, and the volume should also be large, and it may be a dinosaur with a high degree of integrity.

As the snow and soil were excavated, Yu Xian found that the rock area was too wide to pry up the rock slab directly.

Then... it can only be cut.

In the past, to cut fossils embedded in the rock mass, you need to ask Bai Mo and others to cut the rock with a stacked knife and internal strength.

Now Yu Xian has an indestructible weapon: the Cursed Shovel
Shovel!

Shovel!

With four slides, the rock has an extra square cut, cutting out a square area.

Going down, Yu Xian didn't dare to use the sliding shovel anymore, the fossil was too big for fear of damaging it.

First find a cutting line, put the cursed shovel into it and tilt it up.

"Is it so hard?!"

In fact, Yu Xian could call out Yutyrannosaurus and use the leverage principle to step on the end of the cursed shovel, but he was still worried about hurting the fossils when the slab was torn apart.

Change the method, use the cursed shovel to make a little hole in it, and change to Taiqing corpse dissection and separation when it touches the fossil.

After cutting a corner of the rock on the surface, the pointer of the dragon-hunting map was finally firmly inserted into the stone, marking the location of the fossil.

"Not easy."

After working hard all day, Yu Xian finally saw such a little fossil body.

It doesn't look like many bones piled together, but just one huge bone.

On the update page of the dragon-hunting map, Yu Xian didn't look at the dinosaur's name at the first time, and his attention was completely attracted by the percentage.

5%
The completeness of fossils in such a large area is 5%? !
What big monster? !
Take a closer look at the specific information, and it will be clear at leisure.

Butterfly Dragon, with a fossil integrity of 5%, lived in the late Jurassic period 4000 million years ago.

Truly a behemoth.

Still use the data of Tyrannosaurus rex for comparison. The maximum length calculated from the existing Tyrannosaurus rex fossils is greater than 14 meters, and the heaviest may be 9 tons.

Butterfly Dragon has a body length of more than 30 meters, a height of more than 7 meters, and a weight of about 30 tons.

This kind can grow to be very large, and it is generally a herbivorous dinosaur.

In order to deal with predators, vegetarian dinosaurs have two routes, one is to build armor, and the other is to produce meat.

Stacked armor such as ankylosaurus and spiny ankylosaurus.

Producing meat is equivalent to becoming bigger, such as Mamenchisaurus.

Butterflyosaurus belongs to the Mamenchisauridae family, and it is also a member of the big meat-producing family. It also has the characteristic of a particularly long neck.

30 meters in total length, of which the neck reaches 15 meters.

"Ah... this is too difficult to dig out."

This kind of giant dragon is so big that it is difficult to piece together a complete skeleton, so even if there is no research value related to the paper, the fossils of Phetosaurus are still precious.

Yu Xian has mastered Taiqing's autopsy, and the speed of separation chemistry is much, much faster than that of conventional paleontological research institutes.

The main problem we are currently facing is whether less than twenty U disks are enough.

(End of this chapter)