Fukui is a special place for dinosaurs: roughly 80% of all dinosaur fossils discovered nationwide have come from Fukui. These many discoveries include fossils that are unusually complete, and rare firsts for Japan: many species were discovered here, as well as Japan’s first fossilized footprints of a walking dinosaur, and first whole claw from a meat-eating dinosaur. In a … [Read more...] about Fukui: the Dinosaur Capital of Japan