From September to December 2000 my 13-person team and I trekked from one desert dig site to the next. We were on the hunt for some seriously strange dinosaur fossils: 600-toothed giant plant-eaters, flying reptiles, massive crocodiles, and more. While the heat and dust were hard on us and our equipment, the Saharas bone-preserving dryness makes for some remarkably rich fossil beds. On past Niger ...