The Gobi desert is known as one of the main sources of fossil fuels. In particular, dinosaur fossils. It holds the world's richest and most diverse deposits of dinosaur and early mammal remains from 80 million years ago. According to New York Times, the American-Mongolia team excavated tremendous amount of fossils including dinosaurs, lizards, early mammals, modern birds, etc. The coolest discovery I saw from that article was a nest of dinosaur eggs with a broken one exposing a fossilized curled-up embryo. Gobi is just such a world treasure which has countless stories underneath it.
By:Nicole
Picture credits:
http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/107197.aspx
http://www.omg-facts.com/Science/Paleontologists-found-two-dinosaurs-froz/52613
Resources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/13gobi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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