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The fossil preserves a Velociraptor in battle against a Protoceratops. The most famous is part of the ' Fighting Dinosaurs' specimen ( MPC-D 100/25 formerly IGM, GIN, or GI SPS), discovered by a Polish-Mongolian team in 1971. 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. mongoliensis during its formal description. Earlier that year, Osborn had informally mentioned the animal in a popular press article, under the name 'Ovoraptor djadochtari' (not to be confused with the similarly named Oviraptor), eventually changed into V. mongoliensis after its country of origin. This name is derived from the Latin words velox ('swift') and raptor ('robber' or 'plunderer') and refers to the animal's cursorial nature and carnivorous diet. In 1924, museum president Henry Fairfield Osborn designated the skull and claw (which he assumed to come from the hand) as the type specimen of his new genus, Velociraptor.

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mongoliensis holotype skull and associated manual ungualĭuring an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Flaming Cliffs (Bayn Dzak or Bayanzag) of the Djadochta Formation, Gobi Desert, on 11 August 1923, Peter Kaisen discovered the first Velociraptor fossil known to science-a crushed but complete skull, associated with one of the raptorial second toe claws ( AMNH 6515). One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops. Today, Velociraptor is well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons. In reality, however, Velociraptor was roughly the size of a turkey, considerably smaller than the approximately 2 m (6.6 ft) tall and 90 kg (200 lb) reptiles seen in the novels and films (which were based on members of the related genus Deinonychus). Velociraptor (commonly referred to as 'raptor') is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park films. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to tackle and restrain prey. It nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, Velociraptor was about 1.5–2.07 m (4.9–6.8 ft) long with a body mass around 14.1–19.7 kg (31–43 lb). osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from the Bayan Mandahu Formation, China.

Fossils of this species have been discovered in the Djadochta Formation, Mongolia. mongoliensis, named and described in 1924. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past.

'swift thief') is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. Velociraptor ( / v ə ˌ l ɒ s ɪ ˈ r æ p t ər, v ə ˈ l ɒ s ɪ r æ p t ər/ lit.

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