New living dinosaurs in China? A viral TikTok claimed the discovery was made during recent expeditions into unexplored territory.
Searching via Xinhuaunet, the online provider of China's official state news agency, Xinhua News Agency, revealed no such report." in"Shanghang County, Longyan City of east China's Fujian Province."was unable to find any reports, journals, or articles elsewhere that reported the discovery or anything like that claimed by Holiday.
Furthermore, while there are"uncharted" areas of the Earth, most of this is oceanic. According to the Schmidt Ocean Institute, only five percent of the world's seafloor has been mapped in detail, meaningWhile the size of inland China does mean that scientists have found unmapped areas within its mountains and forests, this alone does not add any further credibility to Holiday's claim on TikTok.
Inviting the possibility that Holiday had watched and translated a Chinese news report of some kind, there are some stories on which a misinterpretation may be based.The hole was reported to home primitive trees that had grown as tall as 131 feet, with an interior about 1,004 feet long and 492 feet wide.of remains of never-before-seen ancient creatures
, found in China's Xinjiang's region, which survived a mass extinction event that wiped out the majority of life on earth. Scientists discovered bones of the newly identified species amid a rich deposit of plant and animal fossils from the Permian period and Triassic period , a study published in the journalHowever, neither of these stories contains any reference to discoveries of living species, let alone the"creatures" as described by Holiday on TikTok.
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