After having traveled to 80 cities of 20 countries, the "Wonders of Mongolian Dinosaurs" exhibition officially opened in homeland on June 5.
It shows 55 types of 100 collections comprising findings from Mongolia, dating back to late and early Cretaceous and to Jurassic periods, at "Hunnu" mall complex in two-sectioned exhibit hall. The largest carnivorous dinosaurs and fossils discovered in Mongolia are considered as the only ones in the world and as scientific discoveries.
Head of Paleontology Institute of the Academy of Sciences Kh.Tsogtbaatar:
Mongolian dinosaurs are the representatives of the latest evolution of dinosaurs. Formerly, only the size of the bones was considered most important, whereas today the fossils are ranked by their evidences that are useful in scientific analysis to study the characteristics of the ancient species, and what modern-day creatures had derived from dinosaurs.
The Mongolian first paleontological expeditions were run by foreign scholars in 1920’s. In 1960, Mongolia hosted its own first independent expeditions. Our country is the third in the world by its paleontological achievements, having discovered one fifth of all the dinosaurs excavated from the surface of the earth, 400 types of over 80 species.