On June 26, a team of Chinese and foreign paleontologists announced that researchers had discovered the smallest dinosaur footprint ever recorded in China in Fushun County, Zigong, Sichuan. In 1998, Brother Ding Yongfu, a villager in Wuli Village, Fushun County, dug a pond to store water in a vacant lot next to their house, and the mined stones were laid around the pond as stepping stones, and some of the rock surfaces were covered with "chicken claw" shape marks. In 2017, the imprints were identified as dinosaur footprints. The tiny footprints in the Fushun specimen found this time are 10.2 mm long, which scholars believe to be left by small dinosaurs that have just been born, and the footprint makers are about 12 cm long, roughly equivalent to modern sparrows.
