[HN Gopher] Denver's Deepest Dinosaur
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       Denver's Deepest Dinosaur
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-07-16 13:46 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | jebarker wrote:
       | A funny thing about this find is that the bone was in a core from
       | beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and
       | Science which is heavily dinosaur focused. It's either a crazy
       | coincidence or there are abundant dinosaurs under Denver.
        
         | colechristensen wrote:
         | A museum featuring dinosaurs being built in close proximity to
         | dinosaur archaeology sites isn't _that_ coincidental :)
        
           | elpakal wrote:
           | The comment was about finding the bones below the museum not
           | about the museum being built in an archeological hotbed.
        
             | potato3732842 wrote:
             | Nitpick: paleontological, not archeological.
             | 
             | Denver is not exactly an archaeological hotbed, to put it
             | mildly.
        
           | jebarker wrote:
           | Many major US cities have museums like this. It wasn't built
           | there because of the dinosaur archaeology as far as I know.
           | This core was found during unrelated digging in the parking
           | lot of the museum, so I think it is a coincidence.
        
         | awithrow wrote:
         | There are a lot in the area. There is dinosaur ridge out on
         | i-70 that features all sorts of dino tracks and fossils. There
         | was also another fossil discovery during while building a
         | shopping center not too long ago:
         | https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2017/10/10/dinosaur-found...
        
           | dabluecaboose wrote:
           | Indeed the Morrison Formation [1] covers much of the state.
           | Dinosaur ridge is one edge of it, just a stone's throw away
           | from Denver.
           | 
           | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Formation
        
         | GuB-42 wrote:
         | I wonder if this is a coincidence too:
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver,_the_Last_Dinosaur
        
         | cadamsdotcom wrote:
         | > This phenomenon is not uncommon in the metropolitan Denver
         | area where such discoveries have catalyzed public curiosity in
         | subsurface geology for nearly 150 years
         | 
         | That sounds like it's the latter. But actually, it's both!
        
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