Dinosaur Bones Found In Utah Throughout Parking Lot Building
This isn’t something you hear about every day.
Dinosaur bones were discovered at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.
The bones were discovered by a group of construction workers renovating an old parking lot at one of the park’s halls.
Fox News had more details to report on the surprising discovery:
A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed dinosaur fossils at the site for the first time in more than a century.
Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit Hall after removing asphalt in mid-September, exposing dinosaur-bearing sandstone, the National Park Service said. Park staff identified the remains on Sept. 16 and immediately halted construction to allow paleontologists to assess the find.
The fossils are believed to belong to a large, long-necked dinosaur called the Diplodocus. The species is commonly found in the area’s historic bonebed.
Park officials said staff members, a Utah Conservation Corps crew, volunteers and construction workers helped excavate the remains.
Between mid-September and mid-October, crews removed roughly 3,000 pounds of fossils and surrounding rock. The material is now being cleaned and studied at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, where visitors can watch the preparation process in the museum’s fossil lab.
The site had not been excavated since 1924, when fossil removal efforts ended after a series of early 20th-century digs led by the Carnegie Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the University of Utah. Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915.
Take a look:
For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from what is now the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.
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A better angle:
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If you have never been to Dinosaur National Monument, this vlog below gives you an inside look at the park: