A funny thing about this find is that the bone was in a core from beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science which is heavily dinosaur focused. It’s either a crazy coincidence or there are abundant dinosaurs under Denver.
colechristensen•6h ago
A museum featuring dinosaurs being built in close proximity to dinosaur archaeology sites isn't that coincidental :)
elpakal•6h ago
The comment was about finding the bones below the museum not about the museum being built in an archeological hotbed.
potato3732842•5h ago
Nitpick: paleontological, not archeological.
Denver is not exactly an archaeological hotbed, to put it mildly.
jebarker•5h ago
Many major US cities have museums like this. It wasn’t built there because of the dinosaur archaeology as far as I know. This core was found during unrelated digging in the parking lot of the museum, so I think it is a coincidence.
awithrow•5h ago
There are a lot in the area. There is dinosaur ridge out on i-70 that features all sorts of dino tracks and fossils. There was also another fossil discovery during while building a shopping center not too long ago: https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2017/10/10/dinosaur-found...
dabluecaboose•5h ago
Indeed the Morrison Formation [1] covers much of the state. Dinosaur ridge is one edge of it, just a stone's throw away from Denver.
> This phenomenon is not uncommon in the metropolitan Denver area where such discoveries have catalyzed public curiosity in subsurface geology for nearly 150 years
That sounds like it’s the latter. But actually, it’s both!
jebarker•6h ago
colechristensen•6h ago
elpakal•6h ago
potato3732842•5h ago
Denver is not exactly an archaeological hotbed, to put it mildly.
jebarker•5h ago
awithrow•5h ago
dabluecaboose•5h ago
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Formation
GuB-42•4h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,_the_Last_Dinosaur
cadamsdotcom•2h ago
That sounds like it’s the latter. But actually, it’s both!