rex yet discovered," according to a statement from the museum, were initially discovered in 2006.
(Credit: Friends of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences).
“Becoming the home of the Dueling Dinosaurs is further evidence that the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is one of the finest museums in the world,” said Susi Hamilton, secretary of the N.C.Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, in the statement.
The fossils were a gift to the museum from the nonprofit Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.Due to the "rare burial conditions," each bone is still in its natural position, giving experts access to data that would be lost during excavation, including body outlines, skin impressions and potential evidence of interaction, including teeth of the T.Lindsay Zanno, head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and associate research professor at North Carolina State University, added. "The preservation is phenomenal, and we plan to use every technological innovation available to reveal new information on the biology of T. rex and Triceratops
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