They found that some of it was comprised of material from the Gobi Desert in China and Outer Mongolia ... where withering fields turned brown, lakes evaporated and the earth literally sank due ...

The desert extends from the Pamirs Mountains to the Greater Khingan Mountains. Much of the Gobi is not sandy, instead resembling exposed bare rock with some lakes. The Gobi is overall a cold ...

Native to the springs and waterholes of the arid regions surrounding Lake Eyre, the desert goby is an unusual species. Dr Wong said the male goby fish establish nests under rocks, try to attract ...

Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become the Gobi Desert. The well-preserved fossils, excavated by a team ...

Because the squamate record from the Gobi Desert is so complete ... salty lagoons, and ancient lake environments -- not from arid sand dunes. The ancient environment shapes what gets preserved ...