Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
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Denver Museum Finds a Dinosaur Fossil Under Its Parking Lot
The fossil is about 70 million years old. It was found under a parking lot in Denver. The city is trying to find a way to use natural gas to heat the parking lot.
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 — really deep — 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’s paved parking lots, reaching almost 1,000 feet below the surface.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/science/denver-museum-nature-science-dinosaur-fossil.html