the true authorities were the local farmers. They knew the land intimately and understood that even a single prime specimen, when sold to a museum, could bring them more money than a lifetime of toiling in the fields. Within a few years, farmers from all over the countryside had reported several other feathered dinosaur species, which were given names like Caudipteryx, Protarchaeopteryx, Beipiaosaurus, and Microraptor. Today, some two decades later, more than twenty such species are known, and these are represented by thousands of individual fossils.
