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Lost World Discovered:
Final
Dinosaur Summary by Paul Sereno and Gabrielle
Lyon
The
place: Outer Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The Year:
1922 No one had ever seen a dinosaur egg nest
before. The oval textured eggs were beautifully
preserved in the red-colored sand that covered
them 80 million years ago. Within a foot of
the nest lay the skeleton of a strange two-legged
raptor with long, recurved hand claws.
Roy
Chapman Andrews and his crew from New York set
out to explore Central Asia’s great desert in
hopes of finding the origin of man. Instead,
his team discovered a lost world of Cretaceous
dinosaurs, dinosaur egg nests and tiny dinosaur-age
mammals. The expedition, which generated wide
public interest even then - is now legendary.
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