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About 67 million years ago, the two dinosaurs faced off in a showdown in what is now Montana before being buried together in a single grave.
It is unclear which dino won the battle. Triceratops horridus and Tyrannosaurus rex each died of wounds from the sporting battle.
The Triceratops fossil first emerged as it eroded from Hell Creek Formation rock in 2006. The T. rex fossil was later spotted overlying it.
When commercial paleontologist Mark Eatman found the tangled fossils, the discovery was like something out of the movies “Jurassic Park” come to life.
Dueling Dinosaurs was on display in April at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.
And now, Eatman has struck dino gold again.
This specimen could be the rock star of dinosaurs.
After being on display for more than a year at the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark, the fossil of a horned dinosaur is finally being recognized as a previously unknown species.
Named in part for the Norse god of evil, Lokiceratops rangiformis was a cousin of Triceratops and lived in a swampy environment alongside other horned dinosaur species around 78 million years ago.
Lokiceratops had a bright and fierce appearance, befitting a metal that helped it defend territory and win mates: a skull decorated with a shield, horns above its eyes and shovel-shaped horns on its back.
When NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams took off on a test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule on June 5, they were expected to return from a visit to the International Space Station about eight days later.
Now, the pair will likely aim to return sometime in July, according to the space agency.
The return date continues to change as Boeing and NASA work to understand the various issues that have cropped up during the spacecraft’s first crewed journey, such as helium leaks and propellant failures.
Given that the capsule’s service module, which experienced problems, will not be restored, engineers are trying to understand as much as they can before the Starliner’s launch.
Astronomers are getting their first look at a supermassive black hole waking up in the middle of a distant galaxy.
The 2019 discovery of an extremely bright glow by a telescope first tipped off scientists that something unusual was going on in the galaxy, located 300 million light-years away.
Now, the international team has an unprecedented look as the sleeping giant comes to life and consumes all the cosmic material it can.
Meanwhile, researchers may have discovered a primordial type of black hole as they reexamine a theory popularized by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking in the search for elusive direct evidence of the universe’s missing matter.
A 246-million-year-old fossil found in an unexpected place is revealing what lightning some ancient creatures were.
The late paleontologist Robert Erwan Fordyce, professor emeritus of the University of Otago, first discovered the fossil, which belonged to a nothosaur, in New Zealand. The discovery marked a rare occurrence of marine reptiles discovered in the southern hemisphere.
The surprising discovery led researchers to wonder how the reptiles moved from one side of the Earth, dominated by a supercontinent called Pangea at the time, to the other.
It’s likely that notosaurs, which paddled through water with their limbs, swam all the way around Pangea using the global ocean as a coastal highway, said Benjamin Kear, a paleontologist at Uppsala University’s Museum of Evolution in Sweden.
Mapping the remains of the rock gardens could help researchers piece together what exactly happened to the Polynesian sailors who originally inhabited Easter Island.
Researchers are divided into two camps as they study the remote Pacific island, also known as Rapa Nui, which is dotted with hundreds of monumental stone heads called moai.
Some experts suspect that limited resources resulted in a catastrophic population decline. Others believe the isolated group lived a stable life until 18th century European settlers brought disease to the island.
New research using satellite imagery and machine learning suggests the island had a much smaller and more stable population, and the islanders were able to live off sweet potatoes and other crops grown using an ancient technique agricultural.
Dive into these findings:
– As Voyager 1 explores uncharted space territory, the probe is sending back valuable scientific data for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the spacecraft seven months ago.
— Scientists have discovered microplastics in human penises, adding to the growing list of potential health concerns surrounding the tiny particles.
— A 3,300-year-old ship filled with hundreds of intact jars discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is one of the oldest shipwrecks ever found.
— Meet Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo, who ventured into the Amazon decades ago with a mission: to save the mysterious pink river dolphins.
– For years, astronomers thought that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was first observed on the planet more than 350 years ago. A new analysis reveals that the observations made in 1665 belonged to something else.
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