RAILWAY, NC (AP) – The fossilized skeletons of two dinosaurs connected to each other that look like a final death match have been donated to a museum in North Carolina.
The nonprofit organization Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences said in a statement Tuesday that it has acquired fossilized animals from private funds. The skeleton will be donated to the Raleigh Museum’s Vertebrate Paleonology collection.
Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops hid redras are known as dualing dinosaurs, which were buried together 67 million years ago.
Their remains were found on a hill in Montana and remain in the silt where they were found. The nonprofit said the separate maintenance museum would give paleontologists an unprecedented opportunity for research and education.
The skeletons are worth millions of dollars and were the subject of a court battle over who owned them after their discovery in 2006. In June, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled The remains belong to the owners of the land surface rights, not to the mineral rights owners.
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