WATCH: Exploring the Dinosaur Graveyard in the Jurassic World of Mongolia
Paula Froelich goes to Mongolia’s Flaming Cliffs to hunt for dinosaur bones. Design by Lauren DeLuca for Yahoo Travel. Deep in the Gobi Desert is an explorer’s dream: a real life dinosaur graveyard. Sixty million years ago, velociraptors and other dinosaurs roamed this part of the earth, which was then a grassy, leafy area. This site, Byanazag, otherwise known as the Flaming Cliffs, is especially famous because in the 1920s, American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews discovered dinosaur eggs there — proving dinosaurs were reptilian and didn’t have live births.