70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered under Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has sent researchers everywhere from North Dakota to Antarctica in search of fossils to study and display. It turns out they could have stayed home.

A Denver science museum found its newest fossil by accident... in its own parking lot

Denver museum officials found a fossil 750 feet under a parking lot through a 5-inch opening.

Denver science museum finds dinosaur fossil under its parking lot

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a drilling project.

A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underground — and by chance, it just so happened to be buried underneath the parking lot of a museum that houses similar specimens. As the Denver Museum of Nature and Science explained in Catalyst, its online magazine, the ancient bone fragment was buried some 763 feet below the institution's parking lot, making it the oldest and deepest such fossil to be discovered wit…

Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely way in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display

'Hole in One from the Moon': US Museum Makes Rare Find In Its Own Backyard

That there is a dinosaur fossil in a museum filled with such things might not seem like news, but the latest find in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science […] The post 'Hole in One from the Moon': US Museum Makes Rare Find In Its Own Backyard appeared first on The Western Journal.