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While North American teams were shut out of communist Mongolia during the Cold War, expeditions by Soviet and Polish scientists, in collaboration with Mongolian colleagues, recovered several more specimens of Velociraptor.

The most famous is part of the legendary " Fighting Dinosaurs " specimen ( GIN 100 / 25 ), discovered by a Polish-Mongolian team in 1971.

This fossil preserves a single Velociraptor in the midst of battle against a lone Protoceratops.

This specimen is considered a national treasure of Mongolia, although in 2000 it was loaned to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for a temporary exhibition.