• Building the future of Mongolian paleontology

About

The Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs is a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in the United States, and a Mongolian nonprofit organization of the same name. We were founded in Mongolia in 2007 by paleontologist Bolortsetseg Minjin and became a registered US nonprofit in 2016.

Our Mission

To strengthen geoscience education in Mongolia, conserve Mongolia's fossil heritage, promote Mongolian paleontology, and edify the next generation of Mongolian paleontologists.

Did Pinacosaurus have a beautiful singing voice?

In a study published last month in Communications Biology, a Nature portfolio journal, authors Junki Yoshida, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, and Mark A. Norell reported on the fossil larynx (or voice box) found in the non-avian dinosaur Pinacosaurus grangeri, an… Read More

Ondogurvel Restoration

New dinosaur!

Russian paleontologists Alexander O. Averianov and Alexey V. Lopatin recently published their description of the Ondogurvel alifanovi in Cretaceous Research. The new dinosaur was discovered in the Barun Goyot Formation in Ömnögov, Mongolia. The new species is an… Read More

ACMS Virtual Speaker Series

The American Center for Mongolian Studies Virtual Speaker Series recently hosted a panel session on “The History and Scientific Legacy of Roy Chapman Andrews.”

Meet Paleoartist Henry Sharpe, our Fall 2017 Featured Artist

It’s our pleasure to introduce you to our Fall 2017 Featured Artist, Henry Sharpe. Check out his painting on our homepage. We invited him to write a guest blog post about his work, and were fortunate to meet him person this month at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, where his work was featured in a paleoart show for conference attendees.