"Echo"#33,
March 16, 2001

"The cemetery of dinosaurs" was found in Mingechevir.

The scientists have no funds for the research of this sensational discovery.

It is possible, that it will be necessary to open in Baku very soon the new museum. The museum of dinosaurs, where will be placed the petrified skeletons of these huge pangolins, which were found in quantity in January not far from the Mingechevir city.

The residents of city found the remains and not to be specialists they nevertheless identified in the mass of stones the fragments of the reptile, which lived on the Earth 240 millions years ago. The residents hurried to inform the representatives of executive bodies of Mingechevir district and the seconds informed the Academy of Science.

"This is the valley of dinosaurs!", exclaimed the representative of the Institute of Archeology Hasanaga Ramazanli coming to the place of discovery. From now on this territory is named "Dinosaur vadisi " (The Valley of Dinosaurs). During the preliminary research there were found more than 100 variety of ancient reptiles populated the planet 135 millions years ago. In three places were found the petrified remains of dinosaurs. Moreover there are the fragments of other ancient huge animals. Any hoax is out of the question. There is no end to the work for the specialists at the remains of dinosaurs. According to the Doctor of historical sciences, the head of the archeological researches department of the Archeological Institute of Academy of Sciences Aziz Novruzlu, one group of scientists has opinion that the petrified remains of dinosaurs date from the Age of Reptiles (about 230 millions years). The other group has another opinion: they consider the remains as appurtenant to another Age. The precise information will be available only after the long time researches with the participation not only the archeologist, but also geologists and paleontologists.

However there are some problems. According to the director of historical sciences of Institute of Archeology, the professor Arif Abbasov, it is planing to refer the special expedition of scientists to "The Valley of dinosaurs". Why is only planing? There are no funds for the organization of such expedition. The informed about the discovery officials from Administration of President didn't to do something for a moment. Meanwhile the help of the foreign specialists is necessary for the carrying out the researches. It is not enough equipment for these purposes. It is necessary to remove the exceptional for the science and history remains to the capital for the further creation of museum and it will require big funds, but it is defensible. According to Novruzlu, up to now there was found nothing what can mean the signs of the prehistoric reptiles. But the dinosaurs lived 240 millions years ago were everywhere. And the territory of Azerbaijan was very convenient - the favorable conditions of environment, mild climate, lush flora could be conductive for their abode here.

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