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BBC News
11-07-2025
- Science
- BBC News
Denver dinosaur fossil found at museum car park
A museum in Denver in the US, which is well known for its dinosaur displays, has just discovered a fossil of its own - under its car park!The Denver Museum of Science and Nature was drilling into the ground to look at the potential for the building to use geothermal energy is a type of renewable energy that uses the Earth's natural heat to warm homes and businesses or generate Hagadorn, who works at the museum, said finding the bone in this way was "super rare". The bone was found in a hole drilled more than 750ft (230 meters) into the ground, but the hole was only a couple of inches officials struggled to say just how unlikely it was to hit a fossil in this way, even in an area where a number of fossils have been found say that only two have been found in this way anywhere in the world before, let alone on the grounds of a dinosaur museum!Thomas Williamson, an expert from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science in Albuquerque, says the way it was found is certainly surprising, but "scientifically it's not that exciting". Thomas Williamson also said there is no way to tell exactly what species of dinosaur it those at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science believe the bone is the vertebra of a plant-eating dinosaur that would have been quite say it lived in the late Cretaceous period around 67.5 million years fossil is now on display in the museum, but there are no further plans to look for more under the car Hagadorn said he'd love to have a look for the rest of the dinosaur, but he can't see that happening as they "really need parking".
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Scientists study ancient mammal remains found in New Mexico
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Scientists are studying the 60-million-year-old remains of a very very early resident of New Mexico. 'This was a tree dwelling mammal, weighing about 3 pounds. So it would've been bigger than your typical squirrel that you would see around here,' said Dr. Thomas Williamson, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Rio Grande Arts & Crafts Spring Fest returns to EXPO New Mexico Mixodecties punges lived about 4 million years after most of the dinosaurs died off. A skeleton was found near Farmington, which at the time was a tropical forest. The remains show traits similar to modern primates and Dr. Williamson said he had help tracking down the little critter. 'I drove them up there on a weekend and we went fossil hunting. My kids were 10 years old at the time. They're twins. We were looking around, and one of them stumbled upon this site,' said Dr. Williamson. The area between Farmington and Cuba is known as one of the best places in the world to find fossils from this ancient era. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
