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Holy Crap, Look What Scientists Found In The Gobi Desert

By Stan

I don’t usually write about biology and paleontology, but this story is rather big:

Horsing around without adult supervision, a large group of adolescent and pre-adolescent dinosaurs died en masse 90 million years ago when they ran pell-mell into a mudhole, sinking to their doom as they frantically tried to pull themselves out.

Terrible as the consequences were of this apparent parental neglect, the dinosaurs’ remains are providing a bonanza of new knowledge for a group of Chinese and American paleontologists who excavated the fossils in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia.

They usually don’t find these suckers in such good shape and in these numbers, so the scientists are quite ecstatic about the find.

While they cannot know exactly what these Gobi Desert dinos looked like, scientists commissioned artists to sketch what the beasts probably looked like (see below).

Artist rendering — ?

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