The fossil skeletons of two dinosaurs intertwined in what looks like a fight to the death have been donated to a North Carolina museum.
Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?
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A non-profit, Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, said in a statement it acquired the “dueling dinosaurs” fossils with private funds. The skeletons will be gifted to the Raleigh museum’s vertebrate paleontology collection.
The Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops horridus were buried together 67m years ago.
Their fossils were discovered on a hillside in the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, and remain entombed within the sediment in which they were found.
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