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 ...

Criterion (viii): Mongolian Gobi desert fossil sites are an outstanding example of the chronological history of the earth, including the evolution of nature and wildlife, geological processes of the ...

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 ...

A remarkable fossil specimen found in southeastern Mongolia gave researchers a clear idea of what the claws would have looked like in real life, with their keratin sheath still clearly visible ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Dinosaur Death Trap: Gobi Desert Fossils Reveal How Dinosaurs Lived ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 304 No. 3 (March 2011) doi:10. ...

Mike Novacek: Fossils in the Gobi. Q: How did you become interested in the Gobi Desert? A: Well, [it] started a long time ago -- I was seven years old, actually.

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 ...

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.