GOBI DESERT, Mongolia —Dr. Badamkhatan Zorigt was quiet, his fingers tracing the exposed, fossilized remains at his feet. A scattering of ribs and the tucked structure of a hind leg lay all pale white ...
The Gobi desert of Outer Mongolia is exactly halfway around the globe from the American Museum of Natural History, in New York--a 10-day trip by way of Beijing, the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator and ...
Ever wondered what a desert that once held dinosaurs looks like from above? Yeah, welcome to the Gobi. Right here, the ...
Compared with the Gobi Desert, the Coachella Valley is a jungle. A variety of shrub species cover our valley floor. Succulent cacti, agaves and yuccas are common on hillsides. Four tree species adorn ...
Asia’s Gobi desert, one of the world’s largest, is on the move. The desert straddles the border between Mongolia and China, and each year it marches south toward major Chinese cities. Google Earth ...
From the instant he saw the egg in the rocks of the Gobi Desert in the summer of 1993, Mark Norell knew he had stumbled upon a time capsule. Peering through the worn-away top of what had been a ...
Polish adventurer Mateusz Waligora just can't get enough of the Gobi Desert. Having slogged 1,785km across the Mongolian Gobi pulling a cart in 2018, he returned in February to cycle 1,400km by fat ...
Travelling to China, it is tempting to head straight for the big city attractions of Beijing and Shanghai. But for my first trip to the Middle Kingdom, I set out on a bumpy two-hour internal flight ...