Scientists Say ‘Dueling Dinosaurs’ Fossil Confirms a Smaller Tyrannosaur Species, Not a Teenaged T. Rex

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It’s known as the “Dueling Dinosaurs” fossil: A triceratops and a tyrannosaur, skeletons entangled, locked in apparent combat right up until the moment of their mutual demise… That discovery in 2006 now appears to have overturned decades of dinosaur dogma about Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome giant long thought to be the sole top predator stalking the late Cretaceous. In a paper in the journal Nature, paleontologists…