Is traveling the world to study dinosaurs your idea of a hot job? It is for this adventurous scientist.
One day in the summer of 1993, fossil hunter Michael Novacek was four-wheeling through the lunar landscape of Mongolia's Gobi Desert with his team of paleontologists (scientists who study plant and animal fossils). Their aim: to scour the area for a new site to dig. In the distance, the group spotted patches of glistening white amid outcroppings of red rocks, and headed for ...