In 1971, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Gobi Desert — a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops locked together in combat, buried alive by a collapsing sand dune 65 million years ago. They never let go.
Gorgocutie says: These two were having the argument of their lives, and neither one backed down. The Velociraptor’s claw is lodged in the Protoceratops’s skull. The Protoceratops’s beak is clamped on the Velociraptor’s arm. They went down swinging — together.
And now, 65 million years later, they’re still together. In a museum. As the most metal fossil ever found.
The meme says it all: first panel, they’re mid-fight. Second panel, they’re still mid-fight, just fossilized. Some debates never end. Even extinction couldn’t settle this one.
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Image via public domain / Fighting Dinosaurs fossil at the Mongolian Natural History Museum.
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