A partial dinosaur fossil was uncovered in Colorado, a museum said. A 67.5-million-year-old fossil was uncovered under a parking lot, a Colorado museum said.

Museum officials uncovered a rare Cretaceous dinosaur bone 750 feet beneath their Denver parking lot, potentially the city's deepest fossil discovery yet.

DENVER — A team of researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science recently discovered a nearly 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil under the museum’s parking lot in City Park. According ...

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their noses — in the museum’s parking lot.

To their surprise, they hit something unexpected: a dinosaur bone. Patrick O'Connor, director of Earth and space sciences at the museum, recalled the moment vividly.

The discovery, a partial-bone fossil that was identified as a vertebra of a herbivorous dinosaur, is on display in the “Discovering Teen Rex” exhibition on the museum floor.

A portion of the dinosaur bone recovered from the scientific core—drilled 763 feet below the surface of the Museum’s parking lot in City Park. It has been identified by Museum paleontologists as the ...

A 67.5-million-year-old partial dinosaur bone was discovered under Denver Museum parking lot during a geothermal digging project, Colorado researchers said.

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underground — and by chance, it just so happened to be buried underneath the parking lot of a museum that houses ...

On Jan. 30, one of the museum’s geologists, who was sifting through what had been extracted, immediately recognized the dinosaur bone, sending museum staff members into a frenzy.

At 67.5 million years old, it is the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil ever discovered in Denver, offering a window into the region right before the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event.