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Dinosaurs of the Gobi Walkabout


January. February 115

(^4) Dig participants including Clint Coker
(at centre of back row) and Doug Miller; and
(in front row, Lā€“R) John Pickrell, Margaret
Thacker, Robbin Waterhouse and Dr
Ts o g t b a a t a r.^5 A collection of bones of
a small carnivore.^6 The partial jawbone
and attached tooth of a carnivorous
Alectrosaurus was an exciting discovery.
(^7) Palaeontology assistant and student
Mainbayar Buuvei faces off with the
compressed fossil skull of a Proroceratops.
(^8) Mainbayar Buuvei and AUSTRALIAN
GEOGRAPHIC editor John Pickrell wrap
the Alectrosaurus jaw in plaster and
hessian to ensure it travels safely
back to Ulaanbaatar for preparation.


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