Fighting Dinosaurs

November 9, 2025 - It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi (a ceratopsian dinosaur) and Velociraptor mongoliensis (a dromaeosaurid dinosaur) locked in combat between 75 million and 71 million years ago and provides direct evidence of predatory or agonistic behaviour in non-avian dinosaurs.

December 8, 2010 - A unique fossil found in the Mongolian Desert showed a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked together in battle.

Apparently locked in combat, these two fighting dinosaurs were remarkably preserved in this action pose some 80 million years ago. Velociraptor was a fierce carnivore that hunted prey animals, such as the plant-eating Protoceratops.

... Museum paleontologists believe that an avalanche of sand killed the dinosaurs while in battle. Image credits: main image, © AMNH. About 80 million years ago two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat when they were suddenly buried alive.

October 29, 2024 - The remains of these two different taxa found locked in combat gives unique and direct evidence of a predator-prey relationship. This also provides an exceptional insight into the anatomy and behaviour of these dinosaurs.

May 22, 2009 - A complete T.rex is all very well ... obvious archosaurian example of this is the famous fighting dinosaurs of Mongolia that show a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in combat....

December 11, 2018 - Forever locked in combat (Image: ... Age: 74 million years Location: Mongolian Dinosaur Museum, Ulan Bator They will remain forever locked in mortal combat....

The plant-eating protoceratops, a cousin of the triceratops, seems to have used its powerful jaws to break the velociraptor's left arm. A collapsing sand dune may have buried the two combatants, according to the museum. They remained entombed in the white sandstone cliffs of the southern Gobi ...

About 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in the Gobi Desert, two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat. A hungry Velociraptor dug its sharp toe-claw into the neck of a Protoceratops; the Protoceratops bit the Velociraptor’s ...

November 2, 2025 - Today, Velociraptor is well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons. One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.

April 19, 2010 - These new findings support a famous discovery made more than 30 years ago in Mongolia seemingly of a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in mortal combat.

A famous fossil of Velociraptor shows it locked in combat with Protoceratops.

March 17, 2010 - This specimen preserves skeletons of the small dromaeosaurid Velociraptor and the small basal neoceratopsian Protoceratops, in a posture suggesting that the two individuals were locked in combat at the time of death and burial.

5 days ago - During maturation, the skull and neck frill underwent rapid growth. Protoceratops were hunted by Velociraptor, and one particularly famous specimen (the Fighting Dinosaurs) preserves a pair of them locked in combat.

November 19, 2022 - Notice that the Velociraptor’s sickle claw was embedded in the Protoceratops’s throat while the latter had bitten and shattered one of the former’s forelimbs.

May 19, 2000 - Digging in the Gobi in 1971, a Mongolian-Polish expedition uncovered the skeletons of two dinosaurs, a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor, that appeared to have died locked in combat.

December 9, 2017 - One of Mongolia's national treasures is a fossil of a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in combat.

April 5, 2024 - As dramatic fossils go, it’s hard to beat the Mongolian fighting dinosaurs – a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked in mortal combat. The Protoceratops, an early horned dinosaur, has the raptor’s arm in its mouth, and the raptor appears to be kicking its prey in the neck.

October 18, 2023 - The most spectacular evidence of combat between plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs comes from 'the fighting dinosaurs': a fossil of a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops that died while locked in battle.