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Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Nearly a year after a dinosaur fossil was first reported stolen from Mongolia it is finally being returned to its rightful owner. US authorities in New York have returned the remains of the 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar to the Mongolian government. The skeleton, which was looted from the Gobi Desert, was illegally smuggled into the US by Eric Prokopi, who later sold the fossil at an auction in NYC for a cool $1.1...
Pensoft Publishers The 'Mongolian Death Worm', called olgoi-khorkhoi by the local population is a legendary animal with an unconfirmed existence that has preoccupied the imagination of the inhabitants and travelers in the region. It is said to inhabit the southern Gobi Desert where it terrorizes travelers with its deadly abilities to project acid that, upon contact, turns anything it touches yellow and corroded. Two new sub-species of earthworms, Eisenia nordenskioldi mongol and E. n....
SHANGHAI, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With VisionChina Media's (Nasdaq: VISN) common stock having lost more than 95 percent of its value in the past two years, a new web site, SaveVisionChina.com, has been launched that allows stakeholders to contact the Company's independent directors to press for meaningful change. Those independent directors are: Yanqing Liang, Director of Beijing Zhonghe Qingrun Investment Co., Ltd. Xisong Tan, Chairwoman of Hairun Ogilvy Entertainment...
BAAR, Switzerland, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum ("Manas") (TSX-V: MNP; OTCBB: MNAP) announces that its subsidiary, Gobi Energy Partners LLC., plans to spud its second well in Mongolia on September 20, 2012. Although Gobi Energy had originally planned to drill its first well - Ger Chuluu A1 - to a depth of 1,200 meters, it stopped drilling at a depth of 1098 meters without having encountered any seal. Well costs should amount to approximately USD 1.1 million. Gobi...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com A million-dollar rare dinosaur will likely be returned to its rightful owners after it had been brought into the US illegally and sold to an anonymous bidder at auction last month, according to the US government, which has filed a lawsuit to force return of the fossil to Mongolia. The US lawsuit, filed in New York federal court, follows a restraining order placed on the sale of the dinosaur -- a Tyrannosaurus bataar (or Tarbosaurus) -- by Mongolian...
BEIJING, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- VisionChina Media Inc. ("VisionChina Media" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: VISN) today reported that on Friday, June 15, 2012, a New York State trial court issued a ruling denying the motion of venture capital firms Gobi Partners ("Gobi") and Oak Investment Partners ("Oak") for summary judgment regarding their claim for $60 million in post-closing consideration in connection with the January 2010 sale to VisionChina Media of Digital Media...
SHANGHAI, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Gobi Partners, a venture firm based in China and Singapore, has achieved a 60% IRR for its Gobi Singapore Fund with the sale of its minority stake in CIB Development, a leading online operator of games in Malaysia and Singapore, to Asiasoft, a leading Southeast Asian online gaming firm listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. The total consideration for the transaction is SGD11 million in cash, for 61.7% of CIB Development, which...
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009/2010 was particularly severe, a condition Mongolians refer to as “dzud”. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski’s horse population crashed dramatically. Petra Kaczensky and Chris Walzer from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (FIWI) of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have used spatially explicit loss statistics, ranger survey data and GPS telemetry...
BAAR, Switzerland, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corp ("Manas") (TSX-V: MNP; OTCBB: MNAP) is pleased to announce that Gobi Energy Partners LLC ("Gobi"), a Manas subsidiary and the operator of its exploration project in Mongolia, has completed its 2011 seismic program. The seismic contract with Sinopec provided for a firm program consisting of 532 km full fold data and an optional program of up to an additional 1,106 km full fold data. The program consisted of eight phases...
The Asiatic wild ass in the Mongolian GobiConsiderable attention is currently being paid to the conservation of migratory birds, as such species may face threats not only in their breeding and wintering areas but also en route between them. But many mammals are also migratory and because most of them are unable to fly they face a number of additional challenges to survive. Fresh light on their difficulties is shed by recent work in the group of Chris Walzer at the Research Institute...
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Nomingia is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It was discovered in the Bugin Tsav Beds around the Gobi Desert. It is named for the Nomingiin Gobi, which is part of the nearby Gobi Desert. It was described in 2000 based on several skeletal fragments. The type species is N. gobiensis. Nomingia was a medium-sized theropod with beaked jaws and possibly a display crest. Nomingia is characterized by the fused vertebrae at the end of the tail that forms a unique mass....
Citipati, meaning "funeral pyre lord", is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It is known from the Djadokhta Formation in the Gobi Desert. It is one of the best known oviraptorids thanks to a number of well preserved fossils, some of which have been found in brooding positions on top of egg nests. These findings help solidify the link between non-avian dinosaurs and birds. It was first described by James M. Clark, Mark Norell, and Rinchen...
