Scientists Drilled for Geothermal Energy. They Hit a 67-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead.
created: July 16, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: July 23, 2025, 12:11 p.m.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:The Denver Museum of Nature & Science discovered a dinosaur fossil buried in its own parking lot.
The partial bone of a plant-eating dinosaur is the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil ever found in Denver.
When a museum popular with dinosaur enthusiasts went digging in its own parking lot, the dinosaur fossil their team found didn’t have far to travel to make it into an exhibit.
There was no expectation of locating something as wild as a dinosaur fossil.
Neither of those, however, were at the site of a dinosaur museum.
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