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About 70 million years ago, a cousin of Velociraptor got in a brawl with a larger predator that left it with a nasty rib injury. But this dinosaur, a feathered hypercarnivore, lived to tell the tale, as its rib showed signs of healing, a new study finds.
The newfound species, dubbed Dineobellator notohesperus, had another injury; a gash on its sickle-shaped claw that "we hypothesize may have been made by another Dineobellator," said study lead researcher Steven Jasinski, a paleontologist and head of the Paleontology and Geology Section at The State Museum of Pennsylvania.
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That's kind of cool.
The newfound species, dubbed Dineobellator notohesperus, had another injury; a gash on its sickle-shaped claw that "we hypothesize may have been made by another Dineobellator," said study lead researcher Steven Jasinski, a paleontologist and head of the Paleontology and Geology Section at The State Museum of Pennsylvania.
'Warrior' dinosaur with nasty gouge mark on claw uncovered in New Mexico
This hypercarnivore got in a fight 70 million years ago, and lived to tell the tale.
That's kind of cool.
