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
Guest blog by Jennifer A. Lane: Research Associate, ANMH; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baruch College, CUNY Protoceratops andrewsi is one of Mongolia’s most celebrated dinosaurs, famous for its fossil nests. Although eggs originally discovered by the American Museum of… Read More
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
Markie Massey reviews Roy Chapman Andrews’ 1943 book, Under a Lucky Star: A Lifetime of Adventure.
The American Center for Mongolian Studies Virtual Speaker Series recently hosted a panel session on “The History and Scientific Legacy of Roy Chapman Andrews.”
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.
Every quarter, we like to acknowledge the work of one of our volunteers, and help you get to know our team in the process. This quarter, we’re pleased to introduce you to Undrakhsaikhan Tumen. Undraa manages the Bayanzag Facebook page and posts photos and stories from the Flaming Cliffs and surrounding community. Our Executive Director Bolortsetseg Minjin interviewed her for this post.
Protoceratops was hungry. A stocky plant-eater the size of a sheep with wide, strong feet, and a frill on the back of its head, it used its parrot-like beak to shear tough plants in a wash between sand dunes. It was not alone.
These two raptors called different places home and their anatomy suggests that they survived in very different ways.
It was late March, after a great snowstorm, and the morning sun was shining in the clear blue sky of Bulgan sum. The ISMD team was ready to head to the Flaming Cliffs – except for one person, me.