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Bayanzag (
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Time travellers setting their destination to 70 million years in the past
would find the Gobi Desert to be lusher and wetter than it is today. The
wildlife would be different too - instead of wild ass and gazelle, the landscape
would be alive with lumbering Protoceratops, hissing Velociraptors and the fear-
some Tyrannosaurus Bataar. While these creatures no longer walk the earth,
their bones can be found buried in the sands of the Gobi (
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). In Ulaan-
baatar, the best examples are to be housed in a new Museum of Dinosaurs
(
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).
