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Hunting Ancient Dragons in China and Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Philip J. Currie
Philip J. Currie*
Affiliation:
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0, Canada
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I was eleven years old when I read a book by Roy Chapman Andrews (1953) that changed my life. It was a book about dinosaurs, those magnificent animals that had captured my interest when I was even younger. But more significantly, the book was about looking for the remains of these ancient dragons in the Gobi Desert of China and Mongolia, and for the first time I learned that there was a potential career in hunting dinosaurs. The day I read the book was the day I decided to become a paleontologist. But in my wildest dreams I never imagined that I would follow in the footsteps of Andrews and end up in the Gobi Desert.

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The Dinosaur World
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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 7: Dino Fest , 1994 , pp. 387 - 396
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Copyright © 1994 Paleontological Society 

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