Mongolian dinosaur with spiky helmet shows Gobi Desert was hotspot for ankylosaur diversity
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 07:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org) —The Gobi Desert of Late Cretaceous Mongolia was the place to be if you were one of the armoured dinosaurs called ankylosaurs. Besides the badlands of southern Alberta, the Gobi Desert has the highest number of ankylosaur species that lived together at the same time—and now a new family member has just been identified.