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Flaming Cliffs
Region of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia
About Flaming Cliffs
The Flaming Cliffs site (also known as Bayanzag, Bayn Dzak), with the alternative Mongolian name of Mongolian: Улаан Эрэг (red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this name by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s. The area is most famous for yielding the first discovery of dinosaur eggs. Other finds in the area include specimens of Velociraptor and eutherian mammals.
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Flaming Cliffs is in Mongolia. The nearest city is Dalandzadgad, about 84 km away.
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