For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient ...

The fossils of Ravjaa ishii were unearthed in the Baynshire Formation, one of the Gobi Desert's fossil-rich ancient rock layers. The discovery was made during a joint expedition in 2019 by researchers ...

Every termite mound holds roughly 65 cubic yards of packed clay. The total displaced soil rivals about ...

In the middle of Mongolia’s vast Gobi Desert, a team of scientists has made an exciting discovery: the fossil of a ...

The Mongol Derby takes everything you know about a horse race and makes it more challenging-it even has a waiting list to ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient mammal from a small jawbone found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

A scientific team discovered a previously unknown species of tiny mammal in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The animal lived during the Late Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. The ...

Towering high above any of its relatives or namesakes, this caenagnathid dinosaur, unrelated to the likes of Velociraptor and Utahraptor, was a colossus of the Iren Dabasu Formation. Discovered in ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

The critically endangered Gobi bear, of which fewer than 40 remain, inhabits the harsh, waterless Gobi Desert in Asia, where ...

LYU DIANJIE/YANG CHUYI/FOR CHINA DAILY On the morning of April 13, in the vast Gobi Desert in the Junggar Basin, the 17th drilling platform of the Jiqing Operation Area in the Xinjiang Oilfield of ...