Most people think of deserts as sweltering expanses of sand, but not all deserts fit that scorching stereotype. Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is ...

Can’t you just picture camels traveling across the desert sand with their humps silhouetted against the glorious sunset? They ...

Surprisingly, the authors discovered that the wind-swept sand deposits of the Late Cretaceous Gobi Desert's extraordinarily diverse and well-preserved fossil lizard record shapes our understanding ...

A beautiful desert that is as pretty as the Sahara bears one striking difference - it's not covered in sand, but is made up of rocky terrain.The Gobi Desert is a large region in northern China and ...

Desert sand dune landscape of the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta/Baruungoyot Formations. Foreground: the large-bodied monstersaurian lizard Estesia mongoliensis predating on the enantiornithine bird ...

In the South Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a building created by Margot Krasojevic Architects for SIAC is exploring dormant monolithic architecture in the sand dunes. The Sand Drift Proving Ground ...

Barren yet beautiful, the moonscapes of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are an alluring world of steppes, boreal forest, sand and rock. Here, visitors can bookend their days with yoga and Buddhist ...

When he heard them in the Gobi Desert, ... Avalanches can begin only after a dry desert sand dune has built up to an angle of about 35 degrees and only when a sufficient amount of wind provides ...

100-million-year-old ‘sand dragon’ discovered in Gobi Desert. See the new species By Irene Wright. July 18, 2024 4:20 PM.

Despite being in the desert, it’s one of just a few regions in the Mongolian Gobi that’s covered in mounds of sand. Here, guests can explore the dunes on foot or hire a camel from one of the ...