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title: Velociraptor
description: "Dalle origini del pianeta alle grandi estinzioni. Un viaggio attraverso 4 miliardi di anni di storia, dalle prime forme di vita dell'Adeano ai giganti del Mesozoico e oltre."
author: Angelo Denitto
url: https://noidinosauri.it/en/dinosaurs/saurischians/theropods/velociraptor
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## Curiosity - Did you know?

Taphonomy has produced one of the most crucial direct evidences in the history of paleontology: the Fighting Dinosaurs. Discovered in 1971 by a Polish-Mongolian team deep within the Gobi Desert, the fossil locks a real hunting dynamic in stone. A *Velociraptor* engaged in a lethal clash against a Protoceratops.



Geological analysis indicates instantaneous burial, caused by the collapse of a rain-soaked dune over the fighting beasts. The sandstone block shows the predator's sickle claw jammed into the herbivore's throat, while the Protoceratops crushes the raptor's right arm, clamped shut in its bony beak. An uncontaminated prehistoric freeze-frame.

IMPORTANT - Some statements regarding behavior, coloration, and sensory abilities reflect ongoing scientific hypotheses, not established certainties.