The Development Bureau on Wednesday said about 5,600 people have visited an exhibition showcasing the first-ever dinosaur fossils found on home soil.

Writing on social media, it said the people who were trying to catch a glimpse of the bones displayed at the Heritage Discovery Centre at Kowloon Park included students and tourists.

It added that temporary studios and showrooms at the centre will open by the end of the year, and visitors would even be able to watch paleontologists prepare fossils.

The bureau also said that mainland and local experts are still carrying out excavation work on Port Island, where the fossils were found.

It pointed out that the team had to carry generators and excavation tools to the island, in the northeastern waters of the SAR, as there is no electricity supply.

Authorities added that apart from collaborating with mainland experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, they are also contacting local experts for future research and education endeavours.