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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

5 days 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.

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

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!

January 17, 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.

One of the most famous dinosaur discoveries of all – “The Fighting Dinosaurs”. 🔥 #FossilFriday A Velociraptor and Protoceratops forever locked in...

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

The Dueling Dinosaurs is an incredible fossil that contains the skeletons of two extinct animals— a tyrannosaur and a Triceratops. What happened to these two dinosaurs? Who were they, and how did they come to be buried together?

July 18, 2023 - A small badger-like mammal and a juvenile bipedal dinosaur were locked in a battle to the death 125 million years ago when they were both killed and perfectly preserved by a volcanic mudflow.

Written by Nikki Zambon Back in ... of paleontology—the fossils of two dinosaurs, interlocked in what appeared to be the final stages of a battle to the death that took place some 67 million years ago....

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 ...

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.

iguanadon and megalosaurus dinosaurs battling from world before the deluge by louis figuier - 19th century - fighting dinosaurs fossils stock illustrations

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