Peking University is one of the best universities in China, and it is a place that many students yearn for. Among the 35 undergraduate majors offered by Peking University, paleontology is the most promising major, which most people have never heard of. In the eyes of the public, the promising majors are probably law and medicine.

Paleontology is a basic subject that uses fossils and traces of ancient life to conduct biological research, explore the characteristics and evolution history of ancient life, explore the major origin of life and the time of extinction and recovery, and explore the evolution history and environment of the earth. That sounds pretty high.

In short, modern paleontology is an interdisciplinary subject of life science, geographical science and environmental science, and the graduates of paleontology can engage in scientific research, teaching, production, management and other aspects.

At present, only Peking University, Nanjing University, Shenyang Normal University and Hebei University of Geology have this subject. The paleontology major of Nanjing University is still recruited every two years, and the paleontology major of Peking University has also set a record of only 1 student for six consecutive years.