It’s been the biggest storm of its kind here in at least ten years, they’re saying. At one point, thirty-five people were missing in the area, and one still hasn’t been found.
Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs
A Day in Dalanzadgad
After a team breakfast of bread with jam, fried eggs, and bantan (a traditional meat and rice soup), we made our way to our meeting with several officials from the local Parliament.
Waking up in Ulaanbaatar
We’re back in Mongolia for two weeks to meet with government officials in the Gobi, drop off our new bilingual outreach materials, and scout a location for a new dinosaur museum and research center at the Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia’s famous orange sandstone landmark where the first dinosaur nests were found almost a century ago.
Хойд Америкын тал нутгаас Монголын говийн динозаврын эрэлд гарсан миний тэмдэглэл
Бид цахим хуудасныхаа анхны блогоор палеонтологич Викториа Арборын тэмдэглэлийг толилуулж байна. Тэрээр Канадын Байгалын Ухаан болон Инженеерын Судалгааны Төвд (КБУИСТ) судлаачаар Онтариогын Хааны Музей болон Торонтогийн Их Сургууль дахь Эваний Лабраторид ажилладаг.
From prairie to Gobi in search of dinosaurs
Ankylosaurs – the weird, spiky, armoured dinosaurs with tail clubs – are always rare, but two of the best places to find good specimens of this unusual group of dinosaurs are Alberta and, you guessed it, Mongolia.
ISMD President’s Statement on AMNH Fossils Collected by Roy Chapman Andrews
On September 28, 2015, ISMD president Bolortsetseg Minjin shared this statement with her followers on Facebook regarding the sensitive topic of Mongolian fossils in the possession of the AMNH. While the ISMD supports the immediate repatriation of all fossils… Read More
2016 Campaign Update 9
We had some crazy notion that there might be time to relax on our last week in UB. That was three weeks ago. As soon as we returned to Ulaanbaatar we were in a whirlwind of press appearances,… Read More
2016 Campaign Update 8
It’s about time you met Binderiya Munkhbat. The list of things that would not have happened without her includes more than half our workshops, almost all our museum tours, understanding and being understood by our drivers, museum directors,… Read More
2016 Campaign Update 7
We set off for the Gobi the morning of September 14th, a team of five. Bolortsetseg hung back in UB on official business and Binderiya, Teddy and I pooled in Gana’s car with Gamba at the reins of… Read More
2016 Campaign Update 6
We just got to Dalanzadgad after a break in Ulaanbaatar to make repairs to the Moveable Museum, replenish our workshop supplies, and catch up on all our emails. Arvaikheer welcomed us with sporadic rain last week and a… Read More