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A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, ...
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 ...
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‘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 ...
Jurassic Park-ing lot: Dino fossil turns Denver museum into dig site
This dino-mite find, which Hagadorn described as "quite the cherry" on top of the project's intended mission, was discovered ...
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“Incredible Luck”: How Paleontologists Found a Dinosaur Fossil Under the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
We won the dinosaur lottery,” says curator James Hagadorn, who helped ID the 67.5-million-year-old bit of bone.
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Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.
Denver dino museum makes ‘historically thrilling’ discovery under own parking lot
This is a scientifically and historically thrilling find for both the Museum and the larger Denver community,” said Dr. James ...