This 100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Discovery In A Chinese Restaurant Is A Game-Changer We typically see paleontologists make important dinosaur discoveries in barren and remote landscapes. In downtown Leshan, a city of some 1 million people in China's Southwest Sichuan Province, though, one resident named Ou Hongtao noticed something quite remarkable in the most unexpected of places (via World Population Review ). While out to eat at a restaurant, the amateur dinosaur enthusiast noticed giant footprints preserved in the courtyard of the establishment. (Similar dinosaur footprints are pictured above). What these special dents — as Ou described them — turned out to...