After the audience saw the fossils excavated by Wang Xiaoshan, they asked him to dig out the entire fossils from the pit.
Now the fossil is just a little exposed, but it's hard to tell whether it is an animal or a plant.
It was really difficult for Wang Xiaoshan. After digging for a long time, he finally found something. Fortunately, there were not many such pits, otherwise he would have tortured people to death.
"Don't be anxious, everyone. I'll dig it up first and you'll know what it is when I dig it out."
Even after digging out a little bit, Wang Xiaoshan couldn't tell whether what he found under the pit this time was big or small.
After digging for a while, Wang Xiaoshan discovered that the fossil found this time was a bit small, with only one head and no body, and he didn't know where the body went.
Wang Xiaoshan weighed the head under the pit. The head was not very big, but quite heavy. He estimated that the fossil head plus the soil on it weighed about 40 kilograms.
The maximum amount of soil is one kilogram, so the fossil head must weigh about 30 kilograms.
Wang Xiaoshan took the fossil out of the pit, looked into the pit again, and after confirming that there were no fossils, he returned to the camp holding the fossilized head.
It is easier to clean up other parts of the dinosaur after digging them out. The fossil bones are usually left bare and the soil is removed.
But there are teeth and dents inside the head, so you have to be extra careful when cleaning it, otherwise it will fall apart if the force is too strong.
After moving back to the camp, Wang Xiaoshan took the camera to let the audience take a look at the fossilized head.
"Dear viewers, what was dug out this time was the head of a dinosaur. I don't know exactly what kind of dinosaur it was. I will tell you after I clean it up."
"There were only fossils of this head in the pit just now, which is a pity."
[What kind of dinosaur is this? Why does it feel like there is a short horn on its head? And the head of this dinosaur does not look like an animal in the water!]
[This time it should be an animal on land, but I don’t know what kind of animal it is. It has no body and I don’t know what this dinosaur was doing or how it ended up in the water.]
[What a pity. It would be great if it had a head and a body. Fossils are not good at this. Sometimes the whole body can be preserved, and sometimes only part of it can be preserved.]
[Lao Wang, please find someone to help you clean it up so that you can dig the second hole. There is still time to dig another hole today! 】
[Stop digging holes and take us to see the excavation situation in other holes. The remaining time is not enough to dig out a fossil. It would be annoying to dig half and leave half.]
There is too much soil on the head fossil, and the audience cannot tell what kind of dinosaur fossil it is.
However, this head is quite distinctive. The audience knows it is a land animal at first glance. There is a clear difference between the head of a fish and the head of a land animal.
There is only one head left of this dinosaur. It is possible that the body was eaten by other animals, or it may not have been preserved. This is impossible to verify.
Wang Xiaoshan doesn't know how to clean the fossil head. It's very troublesome to clean this thing, so let others do it.
Captain Shi was always at the camp. When Wang Xiaoshan came back with the fossil in his arms, he saw the fossil in Wang Xiaoshan's arms.
Before Wang Xiaoshan could speak, Captain Shi had already found someone to help him clean up the fossils.
The staff at Huangshan especially like to clean the fossils excavated by Wang Xiaoshan, because every time he excavates the fossils, they are very special and it gives a sense of accomplishment to clean them up.
"It will be more troublesome to clean up the fossils this time. If you want to see what the fossils look like, you have to wait a little longer. Now I have people come and clean them."
Wang Xiaoshan turned to Captain Shi and said something, and Captain Shi immediately asked the staff on the side to take tools to clean it up.
"I'll show you the cleaning process first, and then I'll take you around the mountains later."
Wang Xiaoshan just came back. He wanted to drink some water and rest for a while before going to the mountains. When he came back just now, some staff members who were resting in the mountains also came back.
While these staff members are back, Wang Xiaoshan can ask them if there are any more powerful treasures dug out in the mountains. If there are any, Wang Xiaoshan will go there early. If not, he will go there later.
As soon as these staff members came back, their eyes never left the fossil head dug out by Wang Xiaoshan. Many staff members were trying to guess what animal's head it was.
Many staff said it looked like the head of a sheep or a cow. Many people have seen the skulls of cows and sheep, but fewer people have seen the skulls of other animals.
There were only about a dozen staff members who came back, which was not a large number. They would not be crowded around the table, so Captain Shi ignored them.
The staff looked at the camp for a while and then returned to the mountains. The fossils had not been cleaned and they could not tell what kind of animal head they were.
They haven't finished their work yet, so they can't stay in the camp all the time. They have to come back and see for a while before going back.
When the staff were leaving, Wang Xiaoshan asked them about the situation in the mountain. Fossils had been dug out in some pits in the mountain. They were not sure about the specifics.
Fossils have been found in other pits, but not many have been excavated.
Wang Xiaoshan sat at the camp for a while but did not see the staff returning the fossils from the mountains to the camp. The speed was a bit slow. He planned to go later and let the audience watch more first to clean up the fossils.
Since Wang Xiaoshan moved the fossils back to the camp, Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing have been gathering around the table where the fossils are placed. They want to see what the fossils look like first and then write a manuscript.
However, the fossils were cleaned very slowly, and the two reporters felt sleepy after looking at them for a long time.
The audience in the live broadcast room also felt a little sleepy, and the audience began to post crazy comments.
[Old Wang, stop looking at cleaning fossils. It’s so boring. Take us for a walk in the mountains to relax. I’ll fall asleep if you look at it again! 】
[Didn’t Lao Wang just say that he was going to the mountains? Why is there no movement now? Did he fall asleep? It’s time for Lao Wang to set off. 】
[The cleaning speed is too slow. When will it be cleaned up? Can we still see the fossils today? 】
[The person cleaning the fossils is still a man. It would be okay if a woman looked at it for a while. Lao Wang is looking for a woman to clean next time, and she wants a good-looking one!]
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! [Urgent as a jade order, Lao Wang appears quickly and is about to leave. If he doesn’t leave, the live broadcast will end. 】
Wang Xiaoshan did not go to sleep. He was also watching the staff cleaning the fossils. After seeing the comments in the live broadcast room, he got up.
"Then I'll take everyone to the mountains now!"
After saying that, Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and set off. Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing went to the mountains with him as they had nothing to do.
As long as there is a hole where something has been dug, Wang Xiaoshan will go down to take a look. He will not go down if there is nothing dug out.
The fossils unearthed from other pits are pretty good, including plant leaf fossils and some fish fossils, with more fish fossils.
Wang Xiaoshan only showed the fish fossils excavated from other pits, but did not explain them. It is not interesting to talk about fish without characteristics.
When Wang Xiaoshan turned to the last pit, he saw a rather impressive dinosaur fossil under the pit.
The fossils in the last pit had just been excavated from the pit. When digging out, the staff briefly cleaned the soil on the fossils at the bottom of the pit.
The rough appearance of the fossil can now be seen.
"Dear viewers, let me show you a rather distinctive dinosaur fossil."
"This is a dinosaur skull fossil. Can anyone in the audience tell what kind of dinosaur fossil this is?"
Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and showed the audience the dinosaur fossil.
[The skull fossil of a dinosaur is so long. It should be a dinosaur with a relatively long head. This kind of dinosaur should be completely extinct. There seems to be no long-brained animals in real life.]
[The teeth in its mouth are quite sharp. This is a carnivorous dinosaur, but I can’t tell whether it was an animal in the sea or on land.]
[This big head is more than one meter long. This dinosaur must be quite big. It’s hard to tell what kind of dinosaur it is just with its head.]
[How come so many skull fossils were excavated today? Will you excavate more complete skulls next time?]
The teeth in this fossil's mouth are relatively sharp, making it look like a carnivore.
The mouth alone accounts for two-thirds of this skull fossil, which shows how long the mouth of this dinosaur was.
After watching it for a long time, the audience couldn't figure out what kind of animal it was. It could be land or sea.
"Everyone has seen this dinosaur fossil. Before, everyone saw only the body part. Today, we are looking at the head part."
"This is the head fossil of an extinct whale."
When Wang Xiaoshan told the answer, many people were shocked. The head of this whale looked nothing like other whales.
If Wang Xiaoshan said that this is a fossil of a land animal, the audience would definitely believe it, because this fossil does not look like a whale at all.
[Hey, dear, this whale’s head is really long. Isn’t it tiring to eat with such a long mouth? It would be easier to eat with a shorter mouth! 】
[I really didn’t expect that the skulls of whales in ancient times would look like this. I really learned a lot today. Ancient creatures had very distinctive features.]
[This kind of whale should be a close relative of the killer whale. With so many long teeth, it looks a bit scary!]
[If Lao Wang didn’t tell us, we wouldn’t be able to tell what kind of fossil this is. I just thought it was a reptile skull fossil. 】
The audience did not expect that what Wang Xiaoshan showed everyone this time was actually a whale skull fossil.
Wang Xiaoshan watched the audience and left with the camera. He had already told the audience about whale fossils when he dug out the whale vertebrae.
He is not going to talk about it again this time. Audiences who still want to know more can only look up information online.
"I have shown you all the fossils in the mountains. Now I will go back and see how the fossils I dug are being cleaned."
Wang Xiaoshan has been walking in the mountains with the audience for more than half an hour, and some of the fossils in the camp should have been cleared out.
Wang Xiaoshan was walking back with the camera when expert Chen suddenly came out of the pit and called him.
Wang Xiaoshan: "What's wrong, Expert Chen."
Expert Chen said politely: "I heard that you just dug up the skull fossil of an animal."
Wang Xiaoshan: "Well, it was just dug out, and the soil above is being cleaned up at the camp."
Expert Chen: "Oh, do you know what kind of dinosaur it is?"
Wang Xiaoshan: "I don't know yet, it hasn't been cleaned up yet."
He pointed behind him, and then continued: "There was a hole dug out above and a relatively complete whale skull was dug out. The skull has almost been cleaned."
Expert Chen: "Where is it? I'll go take a look!"
Wang Xiaoshan: "It's right above. You can see it when you go up. The fossils have been moved out of the pit and are about to be transported back."
Expert Chen immediately walked into the mountains. Previously, a fossil of a whale skull was dug out in the barren mountain, but the fossil was extremely mutilated and incomplete.
At that time, Expert Chen also went to see the fossil. It was too incomplete, so he didn't do too much research. This time, he wanted to see the complete one.
The research value of complete fossils is higher, while the research value of incomplete fossils is lower. This is why experts like to study complete dinosaur fossils.
Li Miaomiao came to Wang Xiaoshan's side and said: "There are so many bone fossils unearthed from the barren mountain today, two a day!"
Wang Xiaoshan nodded and said: "Yes, usually more fossils of dinosaur bones are unearthed, but today there are many heads unearthed, which is really rare."
In the past, it was not often that the fossils unearthed from barren mountains only contained a single dinosaur skull, but more often dinosaur body parts were unearthed.
The main reason is that the body of a dinosaur is relatively large and easy to preserve. The head of a dinosaur is much smaller than its body, so sometimes it is difficult to preserve it.
When Wang Xiaoshan returned to the camp, the staff had already cleaned out the part above the eyes and were now cleaning the part below the eyes.
Wang Xiaoshan asked the cleaning staff to stop for a moment, and he took the camera to let the audience take a closer look at the fossil.
"Dear viewers, this fossil is quite unique. It has a horn-like thing diagonally above its eyes."
The long horn-like thing protruding diagonally above the eyes of the fossil skull is about 20 centimeters long, slightly shorter than the mouth.
[It seems that the only thing with a horn above the eye is a rhinoceros. Could it be the rhinoceros that Lao Wang dug up this time? But the horn is a bit short. It would be easier to tell if it were longer. 】
[It can’t be a rhinoceros. There are no rhinos in our country. The rhinos seen in the zoo now are all foreign, so they shouldn’t be rhinos!]
[In modern times, only rhinos look like this. In ancient times, other animals might have looked similar to rhinos.]
[As soon as you look at the teeth, you will know that rhinos eat grass. If the teeth of the fossil are those of herbivores, it means it is a rhinoceros!]
[Speaking of which, were there rhinos in ancient times? I have never heard of rhinoceros fossils. This must not be a rhinoceros. I have been to museums several times and have never seen rhinoceros fossils. 】
The audience all expressed their opinions. When they saw the horns growing diagonally in front of the eyes, the audience immediately thought of rhinos. In modern times, only rhinos have horns growing diagonally in front of the eyes.
There are still many viewers who disagree. There are no rhinos in our country, so there may be rhinoceros fossils. Besides, if you can’t see the horns, you think it’s a rhinoceros. Maybe it’s a unicorn.
Ancient creatures cannot be judged by common sense. Some viewers wanted to wait and dig out the teeth to see the teeth later, which would make it easier to judge.