Compare & Contrast: Egypt & China. Ancient Egypt and ancient China had many cultural differences and similarities. While Chinaâs form of government is monarchy, Egyptâs is theocracy. As for their religious beliefs, even though theyâre both polytheistic, they have different Gods. Another difference in the two civilizations is the environment.
Palaeontologists have found what is likely to be the oldest known dinosaur, filling in a yawning evolutionary gap. A study in Biology Letters describes Nyasasaurus parringtoni, a new species from 10-15 million years before the previous earliest dinosaur specimens.
These giant skeletons are how we know so much about dinosaurs today. The first nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur was discovered by William Parker Foulke in 1858. It was of a Hadrosaurus. A complete skeleton will give a scientist a good idea of how big the dinosuar was, and what it looked like.