The Dueling Dinosaurs fossil was discovered in 2006 and remained inaccessible to scientists during a prolonged ownership dispute until the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences acquired it in 2020.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent sources including Smithsonian Magazine, Science.org, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' own records. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Mini-tyrannosaur lived alongside T. rex, extraordinary fossil confirms (seed:science_and_space)
- https://naturalsciences.org/dueling-dinosaurs (corroboration)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-finally-gets-a-home-north-carolina-museum-natural-sciences-180975878/ (corroboration)