Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) refers to land formations sculpted by relentless desert winds. Whistling past the jutting, silent ...

You might include e.g. the Shinkansen or ‘bullet’ train leaving Tokyo, Mount Everest, The Taj Mahal, the Gobi Desert etc ... valleys, canyons and arid landscape. Provide modelling clay ...

South from the wide grasslands of the steppe lies the Gobi desert, an eye-popping landscape ... deep-red Cañadón de los Fósiles (Fossil Canyon), where the erosive effects of ancient glaciers ...

Or, stay landside and explore the Sierra de la Giganta mountains with their saguaros, canyons and elusive wildlife ... grasslands and the beauty of the Gobi Desert with a touch of bustling ...

Known as the Bayanshiree Formation, this area is a hotspot for dinosaur fossils, thanks to its arid conditions and layers of lithified mud, clay, and sand. It's turned up giant footprints, plane-sized ...

In a quiet demonstration of its technological prowess, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted a missile defence test in the Gobi Desert where as many as 16 ballistic missiles ...

Polish explorer Mateusz Waligóra became the first person in recorded history to cycle across Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in winter, covering 1,285 kilometers in 26 days. Mateusz Waligóra is the ...

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because the sheath of one of the digits is intact. Made of keratin (the same material as fingernails), the ...

Fossils of this dinosaur were recently unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert while a water pipeline was being constructed. Scientists say the Duonychus was a member of a group of "some of the weirdest ...

It was discovered last year in Big Bend National Park, known for its rugged terrain of desert, canyons and mountains, on the border with Mexico.