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Dinosaur fossil found under museum's parking lot

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 3d

‘Nothing Short of Magical’: Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Bone Nearly 800 Feet Beneath a Parking Lot at a Denver Museum

The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil found in Denver

The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 19h

Museum finds 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil beneath parking lot

As for the possibility of uncovering more fossils beneath the parking lot, Hagadorn noted the practical limitations. "I would love to dig a 763-foot (233-meter) hole in the parking lot to excavate that dinosaur, the rest of it. But I don't think that's going to fly because we really need parking," he said with a chuckle.

Popular Science · 3d

Denver museum finds dinosaur bone under its parking lot

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science already houses a vast trove of dinosaur bones, but it recently received an unexpected addition to the collection. The latest fossil didn’t come from a generous benefactor or anonymous donor–it came from beneath the museum’s own parking lot.

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d

A Bone Bed From the Dawn of the Dinosaurs Has Revealed the Oldest Known Pterosaur Found in North America

The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock ...

Scientific American3d

Ancient Tooth Proteins Rewrite the Rhino Family Tree—Are Dinosaurs Next?

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

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