Archeologists Unearth Fossils of T-rex and Triceratops Locked in Battle in Montana
Paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a young tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops buried in Hells Creek, Montana. The two dinosaurs appear to have been dramatically locked in battle at the time of their deaths.
The fossils were moved to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the museum announced on Nov. 17 that they plan to display the bones in the aptly named exhibit “Dueling Dinosaurs.”
In a press statement, the museum announced that the specimens will remain encased in sediment from the Montana hillside where they were discovered until paleontologists can safely remove the fossils from the sediment.
The discovery of this new animal species in N C is more than 50 years in the making
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The discovery of this new animal species in NC is more than 50 years in the making
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Already possessing more salamander species than any other state in the country with 63, North Carolina has just added one more to make it 64. The aptly named Carolina Sandhills Salamander (
Eurycea arenicola) is found in association with springs, seepages and small blackwater streams of the Sandhills region of North Carolina.
The Carolina Sandhills Salamander was previously lumped in as an unusual population of the Southern Two-lined Salamander (
Eurycea cirrigera), but researchers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences applied next generation sequencing technology to show that the new species differs genetically (in both the mitochondrial and nuclear genome) from other species of two-lined salamanders (