TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 A Speedy Thief 5 DIGGING DEEPER Preserving Fossils 10 CHAPTER 2 Small but Deadly 13 CHAPTER 3 Gobi Desert Day 21 CHAPTER 4 Cretaceous Crash 27 Focus on Velociraptor 30 Glossary 31 To Learn More 32 Index 32
CHAPTER 1 A SPEEDY THIEF strange parade crossed the Gobi HDesert in the summer of 1923 Open topped cars and slow moving camels made tracks through the sand The cars carried explorer Roy Chapman Andrews and his team of 40 men from the American Museum of Natural History The Bayan Zag region of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia is home to many important fossil finds
