Looking at the fighting dinosaurs fossil,
there are a number of things we can observe.
We can see that the Velociraptor had sharp claws and
teeth, binocular vision, and was likely fast based on its limb proportions.
Based on other fossils, we know that theropod dinosaurs are sometimes found in
groups, something we'll come back to shortly.
Also we postulate that Velociraptor was intelligent,
based on the size of its skull.
However, deducing intelligence in extinct animals is tricky and contentious.
Regardless, Velociraptor and other theropods like it
had some of the largest brain size to body ratios of any dinosaur group.
Were they smarter than other dinosaurs?
We can only postulate.
Finally, there is one more important fact we can observe in
the fighting dinosaurs fossil.
That is, these two dinosaur species lived at the same time and
did indeed interact with one another.
Determining close dinosaur interactions is incredibly difficult,
even in modern environments.
Animals may live near one another, but never regularly interact.
In the fossil record, animals may be found within a few feet of each other, but
those few feet could represent millions of years of displacement in time.
But we do know that Protoceratops and Velociraptor lived at the same time and
interacted with one another as predator, and prey.