‘Fossil Hunters’ are challengers who excavate and research valuable fossils with inquisitive minds and exceptional initiative. From now, exactly one hundred years ago, in 1922, an American ‘Fossil Hunter’ organized the largest ever paleontological research expedition to one of the most unexplored regions of the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. His name was Roy Chapman Andrews.
In the first half of this exhibition, the investigations and research outcomes of both Andrews and his successors (the fellow Fossil Hunters) will be introduced and accompanied by displays of dinosaur and mammalian fossils. The second section will explain the ‘Out of Tibet’ hypothesis, which was proposed by the palaeontologists who furthered Andrews’ study and concerns the megafauna and dispersal of large mammals that existed during the Ice Age.
