Mongolia | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/mongolia/RSS feed for MongoliaenMon, 22 Sep 2025 14:30:00 +0000Paleontologists Discover Earliest Known Dome-Headed Dinosaur in Excellent Condition, Shedding Light on Its Mysterious Anatomyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-discover-earliest-known-dome-headed-dinosaur-in-excellent-condition-shedding-light-on-its-mysterious-anatomy-180987367/Most of what researchers previously knew about the iconic Cretaceous dinosaurs came from their domed heads, which endured better than the rest of their skeletonsMon, 22 Sep 2025 14:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-discover-earliest-known-dome-headed-dinosaur-in-excellent-condition-shedding-light-on-its-mysterious-anatomy-180987367/Paleontologists Identify a 'Rapacious' Velociraptor Relative With Powerful Hands and a Strong Bitehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-identify-a-rapacious-velociraptor-relative-with-powerful-hands-and-a-strong-bite-180987078/The dinosaur Shri rapax likely relied on its grip strength to take down prey in what is now MongoliaThu, 31 Jul 2025 15:25:53 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-identify-a-rapacious-velociraptor-relative-with-powerful-hands-and-a-strong-bite-180987078/These 'Dragon Prince' Fossils Spent Decades in Museum Drawers. Now, They Could Rewrite the T. Rex Family Treehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-dragon-prince-fossils-spent-decades-in-museum-drawers-now-they-could-rewrite-the-t-rex-family-tree-180986787/Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by researchers and found to represent a previously unknown speciesFri, 13 Jun 2025 16:32:02 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-dragon-prince-fossils-spent-decades-in-museum-drawers-now-they-could-rewrite-the-t-rex-family-tree-180986787/Dinosaur With Two Massive, Sloth-Like Claws Is on 'Another Level' of Weird—Even Among Its Unusual Group of Relativeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dinosaur-with-two-massive-sloth-like-claws-is-on-another-level-of-weird-even-among-its-unusual-group-of-relatives-180986315/Paleontologists discovered Duonychus tsogtbaatari from fossils uncovered in 2012. It was a giant, feathered creature adapted to grasp and feed on vegetationThu, 27 Mar 2025 16:39:03 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dinosaur-with-two-massive-sloth-like-claws-is-on-another-level-of-weird-even-among-its-unusual-group-of-relatives-180986315/How an English Exile Ended Up at the Court of Genghis Khan's Grandsonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-an-english-exile-ended-up-at-the-court-of-genghis-khans-grandson-180982598/After leaving his home country in the early 13th century, the Englishman traveled to the Crusader states and served as an envoy of the Mongol EmpireFri, 28 Jul 2023 11:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-an-english-exile-ended-up-at-the-court-of-genghis-khans-grandson-180982598/