Denver Museum Of Nature & Science Provides Behind The Scenes Look At Dinosaur Discovery
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (CBS4) - The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is offering a digital peek at the dinosaur fossils found in Highlands Ranch last week. The museum has taken over the dig site and is doing a Facebook Live Thursday to talk about the discovery.
This week the fossils of a horned dinosaur were unearthed at a construction site in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. A limb bone and several ribs from a horned dinosaur were the first fossils uncovered. Museum paleontologists are hard at work exploring this amazing discovery, and work will continue for the next several days to weeks at the secured construction site to determine the size of the bone bed. Join us live at the dig site with fossil preparator Natalie Toth as she answers student questions and gives us a peek at this fantastic find!
Posted by Denver Museum of Nature & Science on Thursday, May 23, 2019
The fossils were found at a construction site near Wind Crest at Santa Fe Drive and C-470.
Specifically, a limb bone and several ribs from a horned dinosaur were uncovered, museum officials say. Crews are now securing the site to see if there are more bones underneath the dirt.
Rib bones are circled in red.
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Part of the skull is circled in blue.
The rock layer these fossils are in dates back 66-68 million years. These are some of the last dinosaurs to walk the earth. pic.twitter.com/XIHNnNtr3Z
"Finds like this, while relatively rare, are a great reminder of how dynamic our planet is and how much more there is out there to discover," said Dr. Tyler Lyson, the DMNS's curator of vertebrate paleontology.
Lyson and his team will work closely with Wind Crest and the construction company, Brinkmann Constructors, to document the findings.
Construction will continue, but officials remind the public, the site is not open to the public.