Fighting Dinosaurs

November 9, 2025 - The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen which was found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi (a ceratopsian dinosaur) and Velociraptor mongoliensis (a dromaeosaurid dinosaur) locked in combat between 75 million and 71 million ...

November 19, 2022 - The only other similar dinosaur specimen I can think of, the Montana Dueling Dinos (found in 2006) which are currently being prepared in a museum in North Carolina. It was discussed already in this thread. Outside of dinos, there's also a pretty well-known Columbian mammoth find from Nebraska that appears to show two males that died while fighting. ... Was just in the Mongolian natural history museum and the fossil ...

A hungry Velociraptor dug its sharp toe-claw into the neck of a Protoceratops; the Protoceratops bit the Velociraptor’s arm with its sharp beak. Then, suddenly, they were buried alive!

11 hours ago - The way in which these two species ... fossil specimen preserving a theropod fighting a ceratopsian, in this case Velociraptor and Protoceratops....

About 80 million years ago two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat when they were suddenly buried alive. See one of the greatest fossil specimens ever found. Join the inquisitive Deena Soris as she interviews the fossil of a Protoceratops.

January 12, 2023 - We now know that many of the strange anatomical quirks dinosaurs evolved were used to fight with members of their own species. Here’s some of the most fascinating new evidence about dinosaur combat. Two Zuul face off in combat, as suggested by fossil injuries.

January 25, 2022 - An exquisitely preserved specimen of a T. rex and Triceratops, tangled together as though they died in combat, has been acquired by a North Carolina museum after more than a decade in private hands.

Apparently locked in combat, these two fighting dinosaurs were remarkably preserved in this action pose some 80 million years ago.

October 29, 2024 - The Fighting Dinosaurs by Elizabeth Kay. Check out her website and Pinterest. 2024 Update An incredible international update to our coverage on these dinosaurs can be found here, courtesy of one of our founding members, J. D. Dixon. Image References [1] A photograph of the infamous fossil, The Fighting Dinosaurs.

October 30, 2025 - A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s favorite dinosaurs: Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex.

December 11, 2018 - “There is no doubt these animals were fighting,” says Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who studied the fossil while it was on loan to the museum. “There is nothing else like the fighting dinosaurs, which captures direct evidence of a single instant in time.”

July 18, 2023 - Paleontologists have now uncovered the fossils of a dinosaur and a small mammal locked in combat when they apparently died together mid-fight. The remarkable find reveals new insights into the relationship between ancient reptiles and mammals.

To study ancient animals, paleontologists need expertise in the biological sciences and the geological sciences. This is because fossils are shaped both by the animal in life, and by burial conditions in death. Use our cameras to get a behind-the-scenes look at the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil as ...

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The “Fighting Dinosaurs” is the famous fossils of a Velociraptor mongoliensis and Protoceratops andrewsi, locked in mortal combat for 75 million years.

February 11, 2017 - The “Fighting Dinosaurs” from Mongolia are discussed. The observable positions of two coupled dinosaur skeletons are explained based on their postmortem displacement.

July 18, 2023 - A small badger-like mammal and a young bipedal dinosaur were locked in "mortal combat" around 125 million years ago before being entombed by a sudden volcanic eruption, creating a stunning fossil that perfectly preserves their fight to the death.

November 19, 2020 - The 67 million-year-old "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil contains a T. rex and a triceratops skeleton, possibly locked in combat.