“While we were walking across the terrain at Tsagaan Khushuu, examining the exposed layers of pale and more reddish Cretaceous sandstones, Gwidon Jakubowski pointed out a spot where bones were visible in the cliff wall, about two meters below the surface. They were situated about 2.5 meters apart, and it was reasonable to assume they came from the same skeleton. […] After the first day of excavations, the nearly complete, well-preserved skull of a relatively small predatory dinosaur from the tyrannosaur group had been revealed. Presumably, as with all dinosaurs of this group found in the Gobi, it belonged to the genus Tarbosaurus. As the skeleton continued to be uncovered, the find became more and more fascinating. Within a few days, an almost complete* and remarkably well-preserved tarbosaur skeleton emerged, positioned on its side with the head arched backward, the legs tucked in, and the tail curved. […] It was relatively small in size; we estimated that it was just over 7 meters long. The skeleton had been preserved in exactly the position in which the animal died about 80 million years ago. In this same death posture – with its head thrown back and legs drawn in – we often found the bodies of camels in the desert.”

*Unfortunately, elements at the extremes of the skeleton (the tip of the snout and more than half of the tail), which protruded from the cliff wall, had weathered away and did not survive to our time.