Roy Chapman Andrews found the first scientifically recognised dinosaur nests here in 1923, in the red sandstone of the Mongolian Gobi, and the site later produced the Fighting Dinosaurs, a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked together and buried mid-fight by a collapsing dune. Mongolia has been fighting to repatriate smuggled Gobi fossils for decades and has won several major cases. LOOK ONLY. Export of fossils from Mongolia is illegal.
Protoceratops, Velociraptor, dinosaur eggs · Late Cretaceous, ~75 mya
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