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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Xing Lida

Experience: I uncovered dinosaur footprints in a restaurant

Xing Lida at home in Beijing
‘Leshan is a magical land’: Xing Lida. Photograph: Yufan Lu/The Guardian

I grew up in Chaozhou, a small city in southern China surrounded by mountains and sea. I was always fond of dinosaurs, and when I was in high school I set up the first website dedicated to dinosaurs in China.

Now, as a professor at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, I’m also active on social media, with more than 6.2 million followers on [the microblogging website] Weibo, where I share updates on my research into dinosaur fossils and footprints.

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