Fukui museum seeking roots of Japan dinosaurs

Fukui museum seeking roots of Japan dinosaurs

SURANAREE, Thailand - Photo taken Feb. 4, 2013, shows an excavation site in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, about 260 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, where Japan's Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and Thailand's Khorat Fossil Museum are conducting a joint fossil excavation project.

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