{"id":31650,"date":"2025-07-12T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31650"},"modified":"2025-07-12T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:25:59","slug":"denver-museum-finds-a-dinosaur-fossil-under-its-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31650","title":{"rendered":"Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever searched for a pair of glasses, only to realize that they were on your head the whole time?<\/p>\n

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science<\/a> is filled with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons. And in the scientific equivalent of tossing couch cushions, its scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil deep \u2014 really<\/em> deep \u2014 below the surface of one of its own parking lots, the museum announced this week.<\/p>\n

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a drilling project that aimed to better understand the geology of the Denver Basin. The museum wanted to understand the geology to see if it would be possible to replace natural gas with geothermal systems to heat and cool the museum.<\/p>\n

Two drilling rigs bore test holes under one of the museum\u2019s paved parking lots, reaching almost 1,000 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Jan. 30, one of the museum\u2019s geologists, who was sifting through what had been extracted, immediately recognized the dinosaur bone, sending museum staff members into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

James Hagadorn, the museum\u2019s curator of geology, stepped out of a parent-teacher conference as his phone lit up with texts.<\/p>\n

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The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.Have you ever searched for a pair of glasses, only to realize that they were on your head the whole time?The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is filled with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons. And in the scientific equivalent of tossing couch cushions, its scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil deep \u2014 really deep \u2014 below the surface of one of its own parking lots, the museum announced this week.The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a drilling project that aimed to better understand the geology of the Denver Basin. The museum wanted to understand the geology to see if it would be possible to replace natural gas with geothermal systems to heat and cool the museum.Two drilling rigs bore test holes under one of the museum\u2019s paved parking lots, reaching almost 1,000 feet below the surface.On Jan. 30, one of the museum\u2019s geologists, who was sifting through what had been extracted, immediately recognized the dinosaur bone, sending museum staff members into a frenzy.James Hagadorn, the museum\u2019s curator of geology, stepped out of a parent-teacher conference as his phone lit up with texts.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31652,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31653,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions\/31653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}