Unfortunately this picture didn't turn out so well, but I was very excited when studying skeletons at the Fukui Prefectorial Museum in Japan to have a chance to see this cast of a very famous specimen from the Djadochta Formation in Southern Mongolia.
The two dinosaurs here are Protoceratops andrewsi (on the left, labels in green) and Velociraptor mongoliensis (right; labels in red), buried and preserved in what appears to be mid fight. The Raptor's front hands frame the herbivore's head, and its oversized slashing toe claw appears to be embedded in its gut. Meanwhile the Protoceratops has the predator's right forearm firmly grasped in its boney beak.
In the background is a reconstruction of an Oviraptor nest from the same formation.
On November 20 2006
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