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Triceratops dinosaurs probably did fight each other using their horns

A famous triceratops skeleton that was auctioned recently for $7.7 million has an injury to its head shield that probably came from another triceratops. According to a new study of fossilised bones , triceratops dinosaurs probably did fight each other using their horns. Palaeontologists have long suspected that the horns were used for combat, but the new analysis strengthens the case.

Read more: A triceratops called Big John seems to have been stabbed in the head

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