The Flaming Cliffs site is a region of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. The area is most famous for yielding the first discovery of dinosaur eggs. Other finds in the area include specimens of Velociraptor. The rock gives off a glowing orange colour, hence the nickname. The Flaming Cliffs site, really Bayanzag (Mongolian: Баянзаг, rich in saxaul or Mongolian: Улаан Эрэг red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in 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. The rock gives off a glowing orange colour, hence the nickname. FLAMING CLIFFS - this area of the Gobi desert is most famous for the first nest of dinosaur eggs and other fossils found here by the American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews in the 1920s. He nicknamed this site "Flaming Cliffs" for the surreal glowing orange color of the rock. Called Bayanzag in Mongolian, which means "rich in saxaul shrubs", it is comprised of red sand, rocks, scorching sun, and emptiness.
Igor Tishin is not one to rest on his laurels. Since Eagle Dynamics’ original flight sim, Flanker, burst onto the simming scene in 1995, Tishin and his experienced development team have continued to refine and improve their product, and in its current iteration, Lock On: Modern Air Combat, it just keeps getting better. Even being abandoned by their western publisher, gaming giant Ubisoft, didn’t stop this team. Proving their adaptability to adverse marketing conditions by sticking with their niche, modern combat simulation, ED has independently put out the first of at least two planned upgrades to Lock On version 1.xx. I have it, naturally, and it’s finally time to take a look at this interesting new addition to the Flanker family. To western simmers the upgrade has the unwieldy title. Flaming Cliffs (or FC) was originally released in April of this year by a new form of computer software sales; internet only distribution. Unfortunately the initial FC release was an unqualified two-pronged fiasco, and the company has shown its adaptability by overcoming several at-first seemingly insurmountable troubles. Eagle’s problems began with their Paypal-centered payment system. Buyers of the game were required to register on the Russian-based web site to pay for the title before being allowed to download. This caused problems, since many people didn’t trust the Paypal service for downloading. In addition several simmers reported that they paid for the title but still couldn’t get authorized. Eagle Dynamics’ attempt to get an alternate “Verified by Visa” credit card system in place also ran into initial problems, and this delayed the title to consumers by some weeks. Since then, however, more developments have taken place.
Not all parts of the world had substantially different climates 85 million years ago than they do today. In the late Cretaceous period, for example, Antarctica was much more temperate than it is now, but Mongolia's Gobi Desert seems to have been as hot, dry and brutal as it's always been. We know this from the fact that so many of the dinosaur fossils unearthed at the Flaming Cliffs formation appear to have been buried in sudden sandstorms, and that very few large dinosaurs (which would have needed equally large amounts of vegetation to survive) lived here. Flaming Cliffs was discovered in 1922 by the buccaneering explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, who made one of paleontology's enduring mistakes when he accused Oviraptor of stealing eggs belonging to Protoceratops (it was determined, decades later, that the Oviraptor specimen had been guarding its own eggs). This site is also close to the region where researchers unearthed the tangled remains of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor, which appear to have been locked in a death struggle at the time of their sudden demise. When dinosaurs died at Flaming Cliffs, they died quickly: burial by fierce sandstorms is the only way to account for the discovery of this dinosaur pair (as well as numerous, articulated Protoceratops skeletons found standing in the upright position).
