Dinosaurs

It’s confirmed! Dinosaurs used to roam Hong Kong

Before skyscrapers dotted Hong Kong, the city was home to another sort of giant - dinosaurs. They were in the city tens of millions of years ago, according to officials. And now dinosaur bone fossils discovered for the first time in Hong Kong have gone on display starting October 25, 2024. 

The fossils were found in 2013 by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department on Port Island, an island off the coast of the city. Experts say they are from the Cretaceous period, about 145 million to 66 million years ago. The mainland Chinese experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences then conducted a field investigation between June and August. The authorities recently confirmed the fossils are from dinosaurs and made an announcement to the public, when the fossils went on display in the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui. But can these ancient creatures’ fossils help attract much-needed tourists?

 

October 25, 2024