‘Hole in One from the Moon’: US Museum Makes Rare Find In Its Own Backyard

That there is a dinosaur fossil in a museum filled with such things might not seem like news, but the latest find in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science came from under its own parking lot.

In January, the museum drilled some holes to see about the feasibility of geothermal energy, leading the scientists to drill some core samples 763 feet below the surface.

One stood out, until the realization hit that they had found some vertebrae from a dinosaur.

“My jaw fell on the floor,” geology curator James Hagadorn said, according to The Washington Post. “My eyes were about as big as saucers.”

“In my 35 years at the museum, we’ve never had an opportunity quite like this, to study the deep geologic

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