Tag: Fossils
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Parking lot project uncovers first fossils in popular area of Utah-Colorado national monument since 1924
Dinosaur National Monument recently announced that dinosaur fossils were revealed during a recent parking lot construction project, resulting in the first fossil excavation in the area of Quarry Exhibit Hall since 1924. According to a press release on the matter, the fossils were found and identified by park staff back in September after asphalt removal…
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‘Nothing short of magical’: Dinosaur fossil discovered deep below Colorado museum
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The untrained eye might have seen nothing out of the ordinary — a jumbled rock in the shape of a fist, not the vertebra of an ancient beast. Fortunately, this dinosaur fossil in Denver was found at a workplace of well-trained eyes. As Denver Museum…
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New ‘swamp dweller’ discovered in Colorado
In 2016, John Foster was walking around the sandstone countryside that defines northwest Colorado when he stopped at something peculiar ingrained in the rock. It was a fossil — a jaw about an inch long, Foster recalled in a recent news release. “Holy cow,” he thought, “that’s huge.” Not so huge to an untrained eye,…
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A never-ending education: A Colorado rockhound’s journey to ‘nature’s art’
Every child must grow up. Sandra Gonzales grew up to be a mother, to work in the healthcare industry for 25 years. But she never grew out of her childhood passion. “We went camping every weekend,” she recalls of her Denver upbringing. “We were in the mountains every weekend. And I would be looking around…
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Chile pepper history has been rewritten by fossils found in Colorado
One afternoon in 2021, a postdoctoral researcher and undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder walked into the campus museum not knowing they were about to change the history of the chile pepper. It was to be a simple introduction to the collections, recalled the researcher, Rocío Deanna. “I wanted to show him the…
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French fossil dealer finds love, moves shop to Colorado Springs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save First look inside of Geofossiles, the new rock and fossil shop on North Academy Boulevard Jessica Snouwaert { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “First look inside of Geofossiles, the new rock and fossil shop on North Academy Boulevard”, “description”: “First look inside of Geofossiles, the…
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‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…