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Stamps in a Weathered Passport

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From the border check station, you can turn to the right and go to the “Highest Bar in Africa” or continue into the unknown. I have seen documentaries of yak herders in Mongolia, but I never thought I would see something similar with my own eyes. We traveled maybe ten miles on the only road before turning back around.

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Flying Dinosaurs: A Review by a Triceratops Fan

10,000 Birds

I probably missed the fossilized remains of a nesting oviraptorid found in Mongolia in 1994, located in the hallway leading to the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs. These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. Like birds. The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861.

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