A hole drilled 750ft deep to study museum’s geothermal potential yielded an unexpected surprise
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The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has sent researchers everywhere from North Dakota to Antarctica in search of fossils to study and display. It turns out they could have stayed home. The museum discovered fossilized dinosaur bones in its parking lot in January while drilling test holes for a geothermal energy project, it announced Tuesday. Knowing they would be burrowing almost 1,000 feet deep into ancient rock that dated back over 65 million years to the Late Cretaceous period, the museum’s scientists decided to use the opportunity to extract rock samples for study. One rock they found looked different - pale, spongy...
A hole drilled 750ft deep to study museum’s geothermal potential yielded an unexpected surprise
A hole drilled 750ft deep to study museum’s geothermal potential yielded an unexpected surprise...
A hole drilled 750ft deep to study museum’s geothermal potential yielded an unexpected surprise...
A fossilized dinosaur bone has been discovered beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, turning a routine drilling project...
A fossilized dinosaur bone has been discovered beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, turning a routine drilling project...
DENVER (AP) — A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone find closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own...
DENVER (AP) — A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone find closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own...
A dinosaur museum made a remarkable discovery in...
The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.
A US museum has made a fossil bone discovery under its own car park.