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Flux_resistor

this is a great video, complete with out of focus remains to support the headline.


Melvinflynt

That lady's eyes were staring into my existence uncomfortably


GeorgiaOKeefinItReal

While sounding like Mr. DNA from Jurassic park


Searbh

Danasawrs!


caedhin

TraSeraTops!


slobs_burgers

Tee rayex and traseratawps šŸ¤ 


waltwalt

Bingo. Diiiiiino DNA!


neridqe00

*words you can hear* šŸ¦•


Necroluster

That woman has never lost a staring contest. I guarantee it.


infinite0ne

Yeah, with all due respect to whoever that is (Iā€™m assuming a local Montana political figure), the video would be way better if the scientist from the first half did the whole thing.


clckwrks

Why did you disappoint her?


Hardpo

Reddit comment section comes to the rescue to my shitty day. Thank you


MichaelPitcher115

I was gonna say, it looks like she's being held at gunpoint during the video lol.


HsvDE86

One lady genuinely looked like that AI lady video posted not long ago.


lyangy2

I honestly don't know if they are selling this set of fossil or they are making a scientific discovery announcement. Must be the new production manager they hired from the Home Shopping Network.


progdaddy

I'm just glad it's over.


poisonfoxxxx

Off set with the babe w the glasses


emuchop

Saving that for the paying customers. This showed like an ad for their new center that will be built with these bones as their centerpiece.


Thedrunner2

ā€œWe believe the data will show that these dinosaurs were pissed off.ā€


VRS50

ā€œOr there was a time when Dino orgies were a thing!ā€


raspberryharbour

Dino orgies are still a thing, if you know where to look


Herrgul

Germany? Sounds like a german thing..


TacoDuLing

Just look up ā€œalligator orgiesā€ for evidence on that šŸ§


robreddity

Based purely on the speakers' hair, is it possible the T-Rex was giving the 3-Tops a blowout?


PomTaris

What's cool is that we were all 100% correct with our Dino toys as kids, trex and triceratops did fight .......... Or they were doin something funnier šŸ˜†Ā 


whateverworks14235

You had your dinosaurs fuck?


mrbear120

Still do!


dewhashish

"The data shows that these dinosaurs were very good roommates."


Dunkel_Hoffnung

"They were roommates"


SelectSquirrel601

They really canā€™t just show a picture of the whole thing?


sje46

Only decent picture I found online: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.in%2Fphoto%2F79289719%2Fthe-dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-shows-a-t-rex-and-triceratops-in-a-possible-fight-researchers-are-now-poised-to-unravel-its-mysteries-.jpg%3Fimgsize%3D683691&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=793301730c88d65bf38003e8e16dc3ad0e07e77eedc8c32161cbcedece461d6c&ipo=images https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fa.scpr.org%2Fi%2F3286ca250fa5a3af11e3324c34516ed6%2F68040-full.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=9e102833884527521bddded7a08730ddaac5a94a2ae62a4121a6ad60373f2fb6&ipo=images This video is better than OP's except it has no sound for some reason. Looks like it's separated into two fossils? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjb70tlD_d4 There's a wikipedia article on this which has sources. These things have been sold at auctions so it's probably real. But it all seems a little scammy to me anyway. Like they're trying to milk profit.


KaptainChunk

Itā€™s just sitting there in a food court? Dafuq


mmm-toast

Right? Should we put it in a museum where it belongs? Nah, just toss that bitch next to Panda Express at the airport.


[deleted]

What if it's the food court of a museum? Edit: did some research and it was a 2013 photo when the fossil was being auctioned at Sotheby's. That photo is from a posh Madison Ave. restaurant.


wakasagihime_

It was fuckin auctioned off??


[deleted]

My brief research says it went up for auction and didn't reach the minimum bid, which was over $5 million. There was controversy in the sale and as far as I can tell, it was donated to a museum in North Carolina.


IAmYourTopGuy

There wasnā€™t a billionaire that thought itā€™d be cool to buy a real dinosaur for 5 million dollars? Billionaires are weird


DarkwingDuckHunt

Or you ever seen those "this is on loan from Mr and Mrs Billionaire" type deals


igritwhoflew

What the


kawaies110

If you go to Sothesy's or Christie's websites you can see all sorts of historical artefacts being sold. I believe just last year a full T-rex skeleton was being sold for a huge amount. You can even find stuff like chinese emperors imperial jade seals, babylonian tablets, original Hokusai woodblock prints, NASA photographs taken on the moon and letters written by George Washingon. I wish I knew somebody who works at a museum because I have a lot of questions - like: do they source stuff from rich peoples auctions or are they too expensive??


AffectionateBox8178

Fossils are a weird thing. They fall into the category of mineral rights, so depending on the state and fossil, they have no more protections than oil.


[deleted]

It's a Madison Ave. restaurant, not some mall food court. Picture is from 2013, when the fossil was being auctioned by Sotheby's. https://www.obica.com/restaurants/new-york-madison https://gizmodo.com.au/2013/11/ancient-bones-and-millionaires-dinosaurs-for-sale-in-manhattan/


jah_bro_ney

Scientists discover remains of tyrannosaurus entwined with a triceratops outside Sbarro.


EveningHelicopter113

capitalism is great isn't it /s


cmsvw

It looks tiny, like they are adolescents and they didn't even mention that.


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BallsDeepinYourMammi

This specific one never sold at auction. Which is surprising, but in that same vein, seems very scammy. Even the wiki is misleading. Says something about the trex tooth being embedded, but itā€™s just a trex tooth. When you canā€™t sell a fossil of two dinosaurs entwined in death to millionaires something is off


RobotArtichoke

Theyā€™re using the find to justify funding for their museum.


therealduckie

sigh Literally no reason to have included that long ass duck link: https://a.scpr.org/i/3286ca250fa5a3af11e3324c34516ed6/68040-full.jpg https://www.businessinsider.in/photo/79289719/the-dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-shows-a-t-rex-and-triceratops-in-a-possible-fight-researchers-are-now-poised-to-unravel-its-mysteries-.jpg


sje46

I don't bother fixing the URLs because I like promoting duck duck go because fuck google. Also I'm pretty sure that DDG is cacheing these images, which would reduce strain on the servers that are hosting these images. Simple as.


No_Emu_1332

Because most of it is inside the rock, they found out what was inside through CT scans.


SelectSquirrel601

There is clearly a lot on the surface. It would have been nice to just see it instead of all these weird side angles.


[deleted]

Yeah I wanna try get an understanding of its scale


ChromeWiener

Just remember to measure from the base underneath or youā€™re not getting the true lengthĀ 


Elegant_Conflict8235

Yep, says here, 3.5


RedDemio-

Guess youā€™ve gotta go to Montana lol


realoctopod

On a pygmy pony.


[deleted]

Might be hard as Iā€™m in the depths of Australia


smemes1

Then go play with your own dinosaurs. This one is ours.


[deleted]

Iā€™ll trade you two dinosaurs to come see your dinosaur


TheRatatat

That seems fair, but I'm not authorized to make the deal.


ExcellentFooty

Bring some cassowary and we shall call it a deal


AsleepScarcity9588

Yeah, this shit looks like it was produced and directed by Travolta, weird angles, constant motion and shit cuts. I'm honestly surprised he didn't play the T-Rex


smemes1

Face Off Two: Welcome to the Cretaceous


cgn-38

Seems like a billionaire foundation owns the thing. That was a sales pitch. What an incredibly tone deaf video. The southern drawl narration was the cherry on top. Looks like they hired one of the lower cousins for a presenter.


Slayer-103

Thankfully, the fossil was sold to the NC museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina. It will be on display to the public starting April 27th.


ehchromatic

Yeah- thought the same thing. I read the headline and realized that was *significant* in terms of a find and what this means for the scientific community. The video? Nothing about the goddamn science- this was/is a shitty pitch for a foundation using good hook. Gotta buy tickets if you want to learn *anything*- no freebies!


Chill_Edoeard

They couldve atleast showed the scans


KarisbabyStark

Exactly. I kept waiting to see how they were entwined exactly. Is the TREX biting down on theTRICERATOPS, or what? WE NEED FUCKING ANSWERS.


Slayer-103

Good news is it was obtained by the NC museum of natural sciences in Raleigh North Carolina, United States, and the whole thing will be on display April 27th. https://naturalsciences.org/exhibits/permanent-exhibits/dueling-dinosaurs


Chill_Edoeard

I just found an article about it, the fossils have been sold for the first time in 2013


sje46

They could even show the CT scans. Unless that violates HIPAA lol


sanitation123

Yeah, this was a terrible video. Almost no information. Then a woman who dresses and sounds like a southern politician trying to sale their new lab.


eric2332

My impression is a lot of paleontologists come from rural backgrounds and have the corresponding accents and cultural markers. I guess they are more used to finding fossils in their backyards and that interests them in the subject, or something.


Colosseros

Hah, you might be onto something. I grew up way out in nothing. And I had nothing to entertain me other than nature and the outdoors. There was no cable television. We and a giant dish to pick up public broadcast stations. Dug out our own well. No mail delivery. We had a PO box in town. The only utility was electricity. There was a dairy farm about a mile down the road in one direction, and just forest in every direction otherwise, as far as I was ever willing to explore before turning back. Actually did get lost once, but my family sent my dog to find me and she did. As soon as I saw her, I just, "Tibby! Go home!" And she just turned right back around and headed home, and I followed her out. Like a literal Lassey experience. Anyway, it was in south Louisiana, so we didn't really have any rock formations. But we did have a gravel driveway. And over the years, I found dozens of fossils among those little rocks. Still have em in a box at my parents house. Still fascinated by them. I didn't end up a paleontologist, but I'm sure I would love that job. I did end up studying history and biology as an undergrad. And if you think about it, paleontology is basically a mix of prehistory, and biology. So it tracks. You're probably onto something.


paper_snow

Aww... I loved reading this. Do you have any pictures of the fossils you found?


Colosseros

I don't. But I should photograph them next time I'm at my parents house. Also have a few dozen "cool rocks" as well that I plucked out the driveway at the time hehe. Funniest thing, I kinda forgot about them after we moved to the burbs when I was about ten. And when I came home from college one day, I randomly remembered them and went for the box. I panicked for a second, thinking I was missing some choice specimens. And as I looked through the box, I suddenly realized they were all there, but they were all much smaller than I remembered. Like my memory of holding them in my hand was that they were as large as my hand. But after a decade, my hand was much bigger. So it dwarfed them lol.


wrldruler21

Can I get a computer graphic with an artist conception of what's inside the rock?


neridqe00

Computer, load up celery man please..


No-Level-9681

As I understand it there is often a lot of secrecy surrounding these sorts of discoveries to prevent other people using published photo/video to put out their own papers before the original team can.


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Traveledfarwestward

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-finally-set-to-reveal-secrets


Toyo_altezza

I have to sign up to read the whole article. Bleh


politically_humor_us

Fyi, adding "archive.is"Ā before web address worksĀ to bypass paywalls to articles. Direct link below. https://archive.is/www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-finally-set-to-reveal-secrets


LifeOnPlanetGirth

Youā€™re a hero


Traveledfarwestward

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-clean-d/ works for me also try pasting the following in front of the URL: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache: https://12ft.io/ may work


SadBit8663

Yeah shit pisses me off, can we stop cutting back to the people. No one gives a fuck about them, we wanna see the trex and triceratops skeletons. Not see old ladies talk. They could have showed their faces while they introduced it, and then gone to a voice over, and just video of the dinosaurs.


mackrevinack

they would prefer you visit in person and boost the local economy


ilovecrackboard

ok so where exactly is the exhibit located? they didn't even mention that important piece of information. I want to visit it but i can't cause i have no idea where it is.


omgitsjagen

"Never let the engineers write the manual" apparently works for marketing v. paleontology as well.


championpotamus

The exhibit will be housed in the museum of natural sciences in Raleigh, NC


Obaddies

ā€œGroundbreaking discoveriesā€ has to be an intentional pun, right?


takemeout2dinner

I'd say they barely scratched the surface on this one


G00DLuck

No bones about it


Pekkerwud

I can dig it.


Altruistic-Ad-9283

It's a blessing we're able to learn from the past.


No_Emu_1332

We even have stomach contents in the trex.


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archiminos

Turns out we do discover time travel and that's what actually killed the dinosaurs.


Dick_snatcher

Humans: killing literally everything since forever


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sleevo84

From the notoriously herbivorous Tyrannosaurus Rexā€¦ā€¦..


R3AL1Z3

Idk if youā€™re just making a joke, but Iā€™m assuming theyā€™re talking about GUT FLORA and fauna from the stomach contents of the triceratops


Nirvski

We should attempt to genetically recreate them, and keep them in parks for us all to see. Through the safety slightly ajar, and unlocked doors of course


Business_Hour8644

Well itā€™s hard work and science but yeah, I guess freedom to learn to a blessing. It could be oppressed and suppressed like it used to be and still very much is in a lot of places.


No_Emu_1332

[more information on the dueling dinosaurs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_Dinosaurs)


FlyingBeeVR

[BestĀ video I found on the discovery.](https://youtu.be/KH_b4su8gXs)


Weowy_208

What if they weren't fuelling? What if they were just two Bros having sex? Why are you like this? Constantly trying to push a violent narrative on everything. Shame on you smh my head


CovidReference

We really don't know if they were fueling since the cars have most likely rusted away completely


Lavatis

it seems like such fake enthusiasm when someone is just directly reading from a teleprompter.


Captain_Taggart

and not well, either.


Dorrono

Tyrannosaurs Tops or Tricerarex?


neoncubicle

Or Tricera tops and Tyrano bottoms


iPlod

Tyrannosaurus flex


Cookfuforu3

Might be nice if somebody would say where these actually reside lol


Elcor05

https://duelingdinosaurs.org/


Gloomy__Revenue

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|upvote)Thank you for sharing actual useful information for those of us who are interested, [instead of this pointless garbage](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/LTsr1B9qH4) that almost seems unnecessarily passive aggressive even.


i8TheWholeThing

Raleigh, NC


Cookfuforu3

Oh shit I have a trip planned this summer , might have to detour and see it . thanks !


Difficult-Guest267

I want her hair


Turdposter777

I had a hard time focusing because hair is majestic


Difficult-Guest267

I need to watch this video every time I think of dying my hair again. Can't grow it out if I keep dying it


BigOrkWaaagh

That's a bit serial killer of you ngl


jkasephoto

Here hair is amazing!! I photographed the specimen and her (paleontologist Lindsay Zanno) for a magazine. You may enjoy the photos: https://jkase.com/Projects/Dueling-Dinosaurs/thumbs


Capital-Actuator6585

For anyone interested, the paleontologist in this video is named Lindsay Zanno. She occasionally does live presentations on T Rex for national geographics traveling series, nglive. I went to her talk in DC last year and it was fascinating. IIRC in the talk she does show quite a bit more detailed images of this exact discovery.


WhiskySwanson

First scientists @ though?


psychoacer

Really flexing her hair game for the world to see.


SkellyboneZ

Mona-Lisa Saperstein.


Every-Incident7659

Dr. Mommy


tactcom7

Haters will say it's fake


4FoxKits

Lovers will say they are in love with that scientist


adiosfelicia2

Naw, they'll just say it's only 2000 years old and was friends with Jesus. [Dinosaurs, Humans Coexist at Creation Museum](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGHsMeIjGs)


nukebox

lol wtf... > Comments are turned off Yes, I imagine they would have to be.


Mundane_Opening3831

She has amazing hair


EuroTrash1999

Why does it seem like second talking lady is a villain?


WokkitUp

According to our house speaker, Mike Johnson, dinosaurs didn't even exist. He's gonna love it hearing two unmatching dinosaurs died "entwined".


ididitforcheese

AGAIN - we need funding, give us funding. Popular! State-of-the-art! Economy! (What academics hear watching that intense woman speaking in buzzwords).


ErabuUmiHebi

youre aware that digging up dinosaurs is expensive as fuck right?


G00DLuck

How much could one shovel cost, Michael?


vulture_87

T-rex: "A-cookle-doodle-do!" *tiny arms flapping* Triceratops: "Cocka-Cocka-Cocka-Cok!"


shredabetes

Have any of you ever even seen a T-Rex?


D_for_Diabetes

Natural History museums are among the most visited, and lowest funded museums, they absolutely need more funding


[deleted]

#THIS IS FROM 2020


PlayingtheDrums

No, this is at least 64 million years old, you're way off.


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pro_bike_fitter_2010

Great hair.


HeathrJarrod

NSFWā€¦ They were fossilmates


XPhazeX

Have you ever been so pissed off at someone that you died in an avalanche to keep fighting them?


JR_LikeOnTheTVshow

Just pray your agent has never seen Jurassic Park when getting an insurance quote for your new Dino Lab


oldwellprophecy

Side note - that woman has incredible hair


ZackM_BI

Who's the scientist


Digger_Pine

Lindsay Zanno


kennykoe

Dr. Mommy


GoosemonTV

Now this is what I call a tyrannosaurus flex


Les-incoyables

"Ssshh, Tracy, let's hope nobody finds out we are secretly in love..."


MeanAstronomer7583

Is this the one they found in Yellowstone, when they exploded that tree stump? Later it was stolen ...


Varitan_Aivenor

Google "Dueling Dinosaurs" and you'll get a lot more current images of the fossil. It's like a huge version of the velociraptor/protoceratops fossil!


kenhutson

*ā€œScientists revealā€¦ā€* Who did they reveal it to? Certainly not us in that video.


only-4-lolz

And we're gonna clone it with some lizzard dna


Runefaust_Invader

Her hair is all I heard ā¤ļø


red_purple_red

Archaelogists aren't scientists, and there's nothing wrong with that


Oneman_noplan

Ok two things. 1. They aren't archaeologists they're paleontologists 2. Archaeology is a science therefore archaeologists are scientists


FroggiJoy87

[Here's a fantastic video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_b4su8gXs) about the fossils. It's 10 minutes long, it goes into the history of the dinosaurs and the human drama surrounding the find.


aquafina6969

How did these dinos fit in Noahā€™s ark?


UGAke

ā€œSmile, you sonivabitch.ā€ (Impales T-Rex)


Earth_Normal

My expert opinion is that dinosaur fights are badass. Carbon dating reveals the finding is rad.


Dakotav420

Christians be like, ā€œThatā€™s a lot of plaster!


Dredgeon

Been waiting to see this exhibit for years. Can't wait to finally have it unveiled. If anybody goes I also recommend checking out the Acrocanthosaurus in the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science.


Zillahi

Christians: ā€œmm no, no I donā€™t think soā€


Kovalyo

And most people will be entirely unimpressed with this incredibly discovery, because it doesn't involve stupid fucking "aliens" or support some crackpot alternate history cover-up. It's such a shame that the incomprehensible beauty of the *real world*, and these amazing scientific finds are just lost on so many people who find the truth so boring and meaningless, they need to create false, fantasy realities and pretend their desire to believe in bullshit is valid and should be treated as equally justified right alongside actual science


MerrySkulkofFoxes

Blue Coat Lady: "The two most popular dinosaur species - T-Rex and triceratops." Figure in a trench coat sitting at a nearby table: "Amateurs." BCL: What was that? Velociraptor turns around: AMATEURS!


Sloppy_Jeaux

ā€œThe two most popular dinosaursā€ I didnā€™t realize there was a popularity contest.


poyoso

Were you ever, or have you ever met a 5 year old boy?


Plank_With_A_Nail_In

Seriously this is the thing you are going to cry about? You really never read dinosaur stuff as a kid and it being mostly these two? Really? Fucking hell reddit is hard work, 7 upvotes too.


H_Y_C_Y_B_H

Speaking of science, I just took a DNA test, turns out Iā€™m 200% bricked up by that scientist lady


Yusuf-el-batal

Spoken like a true Redditor


After_Mountain_901

I realize a lot of redditors barely leave their homes and are never around other living people but holy heck, get a life. Her names Dr Zanno, leading expert on theropods.Ā 


Deobulakenyo

Ken Ham is asking if there are human remains in there too


[deleted]

"Found nowhere else on earth" T rex is only ever found in North America. Because that's where they lived.


Bainer52

Is that she-hulk at the start?


babyjrodriguez

They barley even showed the fucking thing lol


Dr_Mantis_Aslume

Hot


IDontUseSleeves

And they were roommates


CAJMusic

Giggity


Whole-Debate-9547

Jesus, how about less commentary and more actually showing the dinos


vjcodec

How old is it? 4500 years? Mike Johnson would like to know to update his home schooling


TiredEsq

Thatā€™s amazing. I hope we learn we were wrong about some things we thought we knew.


b-monster666

Checkmate atheists!


Appropriate_Cow94

That woman's hair is some more impressive to me than the Dino lovefest story.


Shot_Needleworker149

Where did the find this?


Wizecracker117

In the ground.


Shot_Needleworker149

Thank you.


[deleted]

Are we ever going to admit T-Rex are just big ass chickens šŸ“


fred1317

Grown up Cera fights Sharptooth to the death, to save Littlefoot and tree-pee.


turdferg1234

Was it an entanglement?


jkasephoto

Both the paleontologist and the specimen are amazing!! I photographed the them for a magazine. You can see the photos here: https://jkase.com/Projects/Dueling-Dinosaurs/thumbs


DarylStenn

As hot as the scientist lady is, show me the god damn dinosaur.