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The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...
Did you know? Fossils have been found in other unexpected places, including underneath Denver International Airport!
Museum officials uncovered a rare Cretaceous dinosaur bone 750 feet beneath their Denver parking lot, potentially the city's deepest fossil discovery yet.
The "dinosaur bone" was really a concretion, or a small lump of mineral that had formed around some bit of detritus. A broken part of the object made the identification easy.
The dinosaur's main tumor mass is at the top of the bone, and can be seen on the 3D reconstruction in yellow. Centrosaurus diagram by Danielle Dufault. Courtesy of Royal Ontario Museum.
MINNEAPOLIS — It took some guts to drill a hole in a 65-million-year-old dinosaur bone. But the best imaging technology could not penetrate the bone’s interior secrets, and Kristi Curry Rogers ...
The authors estimate the injury to the hip bone was potentially fatal. Fractures in the left scapula of Allosaurus (Image credit: Foth et al. 2015 in PeerJ, CC-BY) The Amputated Sauropod Tail ...
The new dinosaur fossil was found in an opal mine and has turned into the gem itself, making it the most complete opalized dinosaur skeleton in the world, according to a new study. One of the ...