'Navajo warrior' dinosaur was a real fighter, with a scar to prove it
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According to palaeontologist Steven Jasinski, who led the research, the two-legged Dineobellator notohesperus was a swift, active predator with claws that would have been several inches long.
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Scientists have unearthed fossils of a fearsome feathered dinosaur in north-western New Mexico that was a quick and agile predator which could chase down smaller prey or swarm larger prey in pack attacks 67 million years ago.
And, judging from a telltale scar on one of its menacing sickle-shaped claws, this Cretaceous Period dinosaur also fought with others of its own species.