Scouring the Gobi Desert for the Fossilized Wonders of the Cretaceous We join a Mongolian expedition to map and document potential dinosaur dig sites. Zach Bowman Writer Dec 20, 2018 ...

A lighthouse in the Gobi desert Date: February 14, 2024 Source: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Summary: A new study explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding ...

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups—the lagerstätten ...

A recent discovery in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, has unveiled a new mammal species that dates back to the Late Cretaceous period, predating the rise of the dinosaurs by millions of years. The ...

The Gobi Desert, which spans a large area of Mongolia and Northern China, is known for being a prolific site for discovering dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous period.

Discover Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a newly found dinosaur with sloth-like claws unearthed in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. A new dino discovery is turning heads — here’s the scoop on its massive ...

The newly identified Jurassic period creature, a species named unearthed at a Gobi desert site called the Shishugou formation in Xinjiang , had a modest wingspan of 1.3 metres.

The 35 tons of fossils might well have represented the lifetime discoveries of any of the delegates to the Paris paleontologic conference. Included in the collection were the oldest complete ...

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because of a sheath preserved on one of the digits, which reveals the claw’s true length.

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because the sheath of one of the digits is intact. Made of keratin (the same material as fingernails), ...