For Fossil Hunters, Gobi Is No Desert.

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  • Author(s): Wilford, John Noble
  • Source:
    New York Times. 9/13/2005, Vol. 154 Issue 53336, pF1-F5. 3p. 142 Color Photographs, 2 Maps.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      PALEONTOLOGISTS; FOSSIL reptiles; FOSSIL collection; DINOSAURS; FOSSIL eggs; ANDREWS, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960
    • Subject Terms:
      GOBI Desert (Mongolia & China); MONGOLIA
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on fossil hunters in Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia, a stretch of the Gobi desert that may hold the world's richest and most diverse deposits of dinosaur and early mammal remains. Return of paleontologists who are members of the American-Mongolian expedition; Activities of the team, including excavating an ankylosaur at Camel's Hump; Discoveries made by geologist Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum in New York City in Mongolia in the 1920s; Striking finds, including dinosaur eggs with a broken one exposing a fossilized embryo; Details of this expedition; Description of the area; Mongolian hospitality.