The characteristics of this dinosaur are very obvious, and many viewers immediately thought of a dinosaur that had appeared in movies.
"Everyone, please wait for a while. This dinosaur will be dug out soon. Once dug out, you will be able to determine what kind of dinosaur it is."
Wang Xiaoshan just looked at the fossils in the pit and thought they looked like Brachiosaurus, but after careful inspection, he felt they didn't look like it, and the dinosaur's head hadn't been dug out yet.
There were thousands of types of dinosaurs in ancient times, and most of the dinosaur fossils have been excavated. Of course, there are still undiscovered fossils.
Wang Xiaoshan didn't speak so eloquently just now. Even he didn't know whether the dinosaur under the pit was a Brachiosaurus or a new species.
There are too many viewers in the live broadcast room, so he doesn't have to know, but he can't mislead others by making nonsense remarks.
The body has been dug out, and the head will be dug out soon. It won't be too late to announce the answer to the audience after the identity is confirmed.
There were several types of long-necked dragons in ancient times. Each of these dinosaurs had its own characteristics, but the one that people see most in movies and TV shows is Brachiosaurus.
After Wang Xiaoshan finished reading to the audience, he went to dig holes again. He still had some time in the morning, so he could dig some more. If he dug more in the morning, he could relax a little more in the afternoon.
Li Miaomiao quickly took a few photos after seeing the dinosaur fossils in the pit. This time she only took a few photos outside the pit, where she could clearly see the outline of the entire dinosaur.
If she wanted to go down to take a look, Li Miaomiao could only wait for a while for Wang Xiaoshan to come and take her down with her.
The hole dug by Wang Xiaoshan was fine for Li Miaomiao to walk under, but the hole dug by other staff members was fine for Li Miaomiao, a layman, to take pictures outside, but it was inappropriate to go inside the hole.
Li Miaomiao did not leave in a hurry after taking the photo. She watched outside the pit for a while. If the dinosaur was dug out before lunch, she could start working at noon.
Li Miaomiao waited outside the pit for a long time, but the staff did not dig out the dinosaur head.
There are a lot of bones in the dinosaur head. In addition to the skull, there are also teeth on the head. If you don't clean it carefully, it is very likely to cause damage to the fossil.
By lunch time, the workers in the pit had not excavated the entire dinosaur head, and the speed was extremely slow.
Now half of the dinosaur head has been dug out, and the remaining half should be dug out soon this afternoon.
Wang Xiaoshan first let the audience take a look at the situation in the pit. It wasn't that he didn't want the audience to see what the dinosaurs looked like, but it was because they hadn't dug them all out yet.
Wang Xiaoshan looked at Li Miaomiao and said, "Let's go and see you again in the afternoon."
Li Miaomiao: "Wait a little longer, maybe they will all be dug out in a while!"
Wang Xiaoshan: "Don't wait. No one wants others to eat. If you dig fossils in the pit yourself, eat quickly!"
A minute later, the workers in the pit came out of the pit one after another to eat. There is no way to be inactive while eating.
Li Miaomiao: "Let's go down and have a look!"
All the staff in the pit had left, and while there was no one around, Li Miaomiao wanted Wang Xiaoshan to take her around the pit to take some photos.
Wang Xiaoshan: "Okay, let's go eat quickly after filming!"
Li Miaomiao responded, and then followed Wang Xiaoshan to the pit. When she got down to the pit, she quickly went to take pictures. She wanted to take more details.
Wang Xiaoshan was not idle when he went down to the pit. He took the camera and let the audience take a close look at the skeleton of the dinosaur. After watching it for about five or six minutes, he took Li Miaomiao to eat.
It's noon now, the sun is high in the sky, and it's too painful to stay on a barren mountain without even a tree. The main thing is to return to the camp quickly.
Now, in addition to the staff, Huangshan also has some experts and some surveyors. At lunch time every day, everyone will put down their work and come to eat.
Sometimes there will be some leftover food at noon. If there are people who still want to eat, Captain Shi will distribute it to everyone and try not to waste it.
If you don't say hello in advance and return to the camp after the meal time, there will basically be no food. If you want to eat, you will have to go to a nearby village or city to solve it yourself.
After the meal, the two of them sat in the car to rest. Li Miaomiao asked, "Are you sure what kind of dinosaur was under the pit just now?"
Wang Xiaoshan: "Okay, what's wrong?"
At noon, he had turned off the sound of the live broadcast, so the audience could not hear what they were saying.
Li Miaomiao: "Tell me about it, I can just start writing in advance at noon!"
Wang Xiaoshan touched his face and said nothing. Li Miaomiao understood instantly and quickly went up to kiss him. After Wang Xiaoshan said the name of the dinosaur, he went to take a nap.
Li Miaomiao was a little surprised when she learned the name. When she wanted to ask Wang Xiaoshan, Wang Xiaoshan had already started snoring. She couldn't bear to be disturbed and had to look up information online.
Li Miaomiao started writing the manuscript after checking the information. Although she was surprised, she chose to believe Wang Xiaoshan unconditionally. Wang Xiaoshan had dug so many treasures and never made a mistake.
Wang Xiaoshan played chess with Duke Zhou for an hour at noon and was woken up by the alarm clock. He was about to start excavation work in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Wang Xiaoshan did not continue digging the hole he had done in the morning. Instead, he took the audience to see the long-necked dinosaur. The dinosaur was dug out immediately, and he let the audience see it first.
Wang Xiaoshan waited at the edge of the pit for half an hour. The staff in the pit finally cleaned out the dinosaur head. He first used a drone to give the audience a bird's-eye view.
This dinosaur is a bit big. You can't see the whole dinosaur completely from the edge of the pit. You can only use a drone to see it.
After watching it, Wang Xiaoshan took the camera to the edge of the pit and showed the audience the limbs, neck and head of the dinosaur, and let the audience see it again before introducing it.
"Dear viewers, this dinosaur has been completely excavated. Have you noticed any difference between this dinosaur and Brachiosaurus?"
[Difference? Isn’t it a Brachiosaurus? Aren’t all Brachiosaurs four legs and a long neck? This one’s neck is shorter? Is it a minor? 】
[I have seen this kind of dinosaur in a movie. I only remember the long neck and forgot everything else. I really can’t tell the difference!]
[The day before yesterday, I knew how to distinguish Asian elephants from African elephants. Today, Lao Wang asked me to distinguish dinosaurs. This is a bit difficult! 】
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! [The dinosaurs photographed in foreign countries are all foreign dinosaurs, and the dinosaurs dug up this time are domestic ones. They should be of different varieties!]
[There seems to be a little difference. The Brachiosaurus in the movie is a little different from the one in the pit, but for a while I couldn’t tell what the difference was! 】
Brachiosaurus is very well-known around the world, and that's all because of the influence of movies. Just like this dinosaur today, it's really easy to confuse it if you don't look carefully.
After Wang Xiaoshan just said it, some viewers felt that it was a little different, but they couldn't tell it. They just felt it was different intuitively.
Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and asked the audience to take a closer look at the four legs of this dinosaur.
"Everyone, take a closer look at these four legs. Are these four legs the same as the legs of the Brachiosaurus you saw in the movie?"
Some viewers had gone online to search for Brachiosaurus just now, and suddenly the photos of Brachiosaurus online looked very similar to the dinosaur in the pit. If I didn't look carefully, I would have thought they were the same one.
Wang Xiaoshan knew that many viewers didn't notice the difference, so he had to show the differences to the audience to avoid making random guesses.
Many viewers looked at the pictures online and compared them carefully with the dinosaurs in the pit, and some viewers could already see the difference.
[Lao Wang really wouldn’t have discovered it if he didn’t prompt him. Although these dinosaurs all look similar, there are actually some subtle differences! 】
[I can also see that Lao Wang is really powerful. If Lao Wang hadn’t pointed it out, I would have thought it was a brachiosaurus! 】
[The front legs of Brachiosaurus are longer than the hind legs. This means that the front legs of the dinosaur are shorter than the hind legs. My dear, it turns out that the length of the legs is different!]
[I just looked at the neck and didn’t notice the problem with the legs at all. I didn’t expect that they are not the same dinosaur with long necks!]
[Lao Wang, please tell us what kind of dinosaur this is. This kind of dinosaur seems to be rare. Isn’t it not very famous? 】
The forelimbs of Brachiosaurus are obviously longer than the hind limbs, and the shoulders are higher than the hips. This makes the Brachiosaurus look like its entire body is straightened up, with a downward slope from front to back.
This time the dinosaur in the pit has its forelimbs shorter than its hind limbs, and its shoulders are slightly higher than its hips.
The main difference is here. Both dragons have long necks, four legs, and a long tail. If you want to tell the difference, just look at the legs.
Wang Xiaoshan pointed out that most of the audience noticed the difference, but even though the audience knew the difference, they still didn't know what this dinosaur was called.
"This dinosaur is called Mamenchisaurus. This kind of dinosaur is huge, walks on four legs, has a small head, and its most typical feature is a long neck."
"Mamenchisaurus is the dinosaur with the longest neck in the world, but it is not the largest dinosaur in the world. It has the longest neck and is not the largest body."
"It is the dinosaur with the largest neck in proportion to its body, which is also the largest in the world."
"The average length of Mamenchisaurus is between 21-25 meters, which is slightly shorter than Brachiosaurus. The average length of its neck is 10-14 meters, which is almost half of the body."
"Mamenchisaurus has an easy-going and docile personality and is generally not very aggressive, while Brachiosaurus has a bad temper and is a very dangerous dinosaur."
"Mamenchisaurus and Brachiosaurus also have something in common. They both have long necks and long tails, and they are both herbivorous dinosaurs."
After listening to Wang Xiaoshan's explanation, the audience took a closer look at the dinosaurs in the pit, and found that they were exactly the same as what he said. It was really not until they listened that they realized the difference.
At this time, not only the audience in the live broadcast room were listening to Wang Xiaoshan, but many staff members in the barren mountain were also listening to him talk about the dinosaurs in the pit.
Although these workers have excavated many dinosaurs before, they may not know every dinosaur. Some dinosaurs look very similar, and they can easily get confused.
Although there are experts in Huangshan, everyone unanimously likes to listen to Wang Xiaoshan. His words are easy to understand and even children can understand!
The staff in the pit were still finishing the work, and Wang Xiaoshan couldn't get down, so he could only talk to the audience on the edge of the pit. Fortunately, this dinosaur was big, so it was better to see it from the edge of the pit.
[Lao Wang is so awesome. If Lao Wang hadn’t mentioned the points just now, it would be difficult for ordinary people to see the difference between Mamenchisaurus and Brachiosaurus! 】
[There is no one with this figure. With such a long neck, it is very convenient to eat leaves without lifting your feet!]
[I really want to keep such a docile dinosaur at home, and take it out for a walk when I have nothing to do. It will definitely turn heads. Others ride horses, but I ride a dragon!]
[Raising dinosaurs? Unless your home has a mine, if nothing else, such a big dinosaur would eat thousands of kilograms of grass a day!]
[The neck of this dinosaur alone is only ten meters tall. The trees in ancient times were at least ten meters tall. Could it be that in ancient times they were all towering trees.]
The reason why this kind of dinosaur has such a long neck is to grow leaves on trees. In ancient times, trees grew very huge.
This was due to the warm and humid climate in ancient times. In addition, the tree species in that period were different from the trees today, and the life cycle of ancient trees was very long, which also made the trees grow very tall.
Dinosaurs in ancient times only ate leaves. They didn't need wood, there was no felling, and the environment was suitable. It was difficult for them not to grow up.
If trees hadn't grown so tall at that time, the necks of dinosaurs like Mamenchisaurus would have been useless.
There is also the matter of raising dinosaurs. The amount of food a dinosaur eats in a day is so astonishing that most people cannot afford to raise it, and there is no place to put it.
"Everyone should observe carefully next time you see a dinosaur. In fact, there are dinosaurs that look similar to Brachiosaurus and Mamenchisaurus."
"Interested viewers can check the information online to find out more!"
There are several types of long-necked dinosaurs known now. Although these dinosaurs all have long necks, their body shapes and appearances are still somewhat different.
Some dinosaurs are only found in certain areas, and some viewers cannot dig them out even if they want to see Wang Xiaoshan.
Dinosaurs are still different from ordinary animals. Many foreign animals can be bought and raised in China, but dinosaurs cannot.
Dinosaur fossils are rarely loaned out to other museums for display. Firstly, dinosaur fossils are very large and difficult to transport. Secondly, the number of dinosaurs excavated in each country is limited, so there are no extra ones to borrow.
All living animals are easy to talk about. If you buy a pair and raise them for decades, they might be able to give birth to several litters of small cubs.
The number of dinosaur fossils excavated is one less than one. Countries with a large land area may have more fossils underground. Countries with a small land area will be good if they can dig out one or two.
For example, our country is a country where many dinosaur fossils have been unearthed. It has a large land area, and sometimes when building a house, dinosaur fossils are excavated under the ground.
While Wang Xiaoshan was talking, the staff in the pit had also finished cleaning up. He took the camera to let the audience take a close look at various parts of the dinosaur in the pit.
Although Wang Xiaoshan had already shown it to the audience before lunch, the audience was obviously not satisfied with it. There are very few of this kind of dinosaurs on display in domestic dinosaur halls, and you can't usually see them at all.
While watching, the audience also asked some questions, and Wang Xiaoshan would answer them from time to time, but he didn't talk much.
While Wang Xiaoshan was holding his mobile phone, he had to look at the road and explain to the audience. He had to multitask, which was really tiring.