Velociraptor
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Velociraptor is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. Two species are currently recognized, although o
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The Flaming Cliffs, Mongolia in 2018
Line diagram of V. mongoliensis holotype skull and associated manual ungual
Velociraptor specimen MPC-D 100/982, possibly a new species
Fighting Dinosaurs
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The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi and Velociraptor mongoliensis locked in combat b
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…based on members of the related genus Deinonychus). 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. During an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Flaming Cliffs (Bayn…
Fossil cast of the Fighting Dinosaurs at the Nagoya City Science Museum, Japan, 2014
Fossil of the Fighting Dinosaurs as found in situ in 1971
Skull of MPC-D 100/25 (Velociraptor mongoliensis)
Life restoration depicting the fight