The great boneyard of the Gobi. (Gobi Desert produces a wealth of dinosaur fossils)(Cover Story) From: Newsweek | Date: June 5, 1995| Author: Adler, Jerry | COPYRIGHT 1995 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Paleontologists endure the brutal climate and difficult access of Mongolia's Gobi Desert to search the world's richest cache of dinosaur fossils. Rainfall and dust storms routinely expose well-preserved skeletons of a wide variety of species.

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 approximately 300 miles of desert track, ...