protection of ancient history

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China builds 1.5 km dam to protect dinosaur site - Yahoo! News:

China has built a large earth dam to protect a dinosaur fossil site from being washed away by floods, state media said on Tuesday.

Workers in China's northern Heilongjiang province took three years to complete the 1,450 meter (4,757 ft) long embankment, the Xinhua news agency said.

"The embankment could effectively protect the dinosaur mountain from threats of water erosion and floods," Li Jinshan, vice director of Jiayin Dinosaur National Geologic Park Administrative Bureau, was quoted as saying.

Nice that they care about our biological fossil past.  Contrast that to the attitude of the Americans, where the military wants to use the largest dinosaur fossil bed in the country as a bombing range.

China: protect our fossils at every expense.

America: bomb 'em back to the stone age.

Nice, guys.  Nice.