The southwestern portion of this region is the Alashan Plateau, which was thought to have been an inland sea by the Russian geographer Nikolai  Przhevalsky, who gave his name to the wild horse that once lived here.
A Polish expedition to this region's Nemegt Formation uncovered a skeleton of Tarbosaurus, a tyrannosaur-like predator. Another expedition here used a convoy of Dodge cars to discover eggs that were once thought to be from Protoceratops but have since been discovered to belong to Oviraptor. That expedition was led by (*) Roy Chapman Andrews. The southwestern portion of this region is the Alashan Plateau, which was thought to have been an inland sea by the Russian geographer Nikolai  Przhevalsky, who gave his name to the wild horse that once lived here. The Gashun region of this desert is still home to some ► Bactrian camels. The Dorno- and Dund- aimags, or provinces of Mongolia, take their name from, for 10 points, what cold desert of north-central Asia?
A Polish expedition to this region's Nemegt Formation uncovered a skeleton of Tarbosaurus, a tyrannosaur-like predator.
Gobi Desert