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The Economic Times
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Jurassic Park made T. rex attacks terrifying; now, a 66-million-year-old fossil shows one may have happened almost exactly like that

If you grew up rewatching the scene where the Jurassic Park T. rex snaps its jaws inches from a Jeep, you already have a picture of what a tyrannosaur attack looks like: sudden, brutal, and face-first. A new study published in the journal PeerJ says scientists have found an actual fossil that lines up with almost that exact scenario, minus the four-wheeled vehicle.

It happened about 66 million years ago in what is now Montana, leaving behind one very unlucky dinosaur, according to an official release from Montana State University.

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