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1) Gobi
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Known as one of the most extreme places on the planet, the Gobi Desert can see a temperature change of more than 80 degrees in a 24-hour period, and dust storms with winds over 100 miles per hour. Occasional frost and snow on the dunes is not an uncommon sight. Despite the harsh conditions, the surrounding regions sustain a multitude of animal and plant life. This film explores Asia's largest desert with its expanses of gravel plains and rocky outcrops....
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In 1993, an international team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, in the fourth year of a multiyear expedition, made one of the most miraculous fossil discoveries in history. They unearthed a treasure trove of Cretaceous dinosaurs and mammals, including several new species, that has already helped to reshape our understanding of the dinosaur age. In Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs,...
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In 1922 American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews led an archeological expedition into Mongolia's Gobi Desert and uncovered one of the richest dinosaur graveyards in the world. Political conflicts forced him to leave before he had even scratched the surface of the treasure below. In 1997, two paleontologists, Mike Novacek and Mark Norell, were allowed to return, retracing Chapman's steps and unearthing some groundbreaking finds of their own.
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