The Dueling Dinosaurs fossil was discovered in 2006 and remained inaccessible to scientists during a prolonged ownership dispute until the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences acquired it in 2020.
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- Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms (science.org)
- https://naturalsciences.org/dueling-dinosaurs (naturalsciences.org)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-finally-gets-a-home-north-carolina-museum-natural-sciences-180975878/ (smithsonianmag.com)
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