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
In 1923 Roy Chapman Andrews led the first team to ever discover dinosaur eggs The camels carried supplies such as tents food and extra cans of gasoline It was a risky trip The sun shone down scorching hot Swirling winds blew grit
into the men's eyes Snakes and bandits lurked in the hills But Andrews pushed his team forward They were on a mission to find buried dinosaur bones The caravan frightened the people of China and Mongolia Many of them had never seen motorcars Some people called the travelers dragon hunters because they believed the fossils in their hills were bones from prehistoric dragons The expedition set up camp in an area of orange red cliffs Andrews had named the spot Flaming Cliffs during his first trip to the region At sunset the rocks appeared to be on fire
