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First dinosaur fossil excavated from Dinosaur National Monument since 1924

For those who love nature, a trip to one of our 63 national parks often makes it to the top of their travel list, and with ...

Crew tearing up parking lot at Dinosaur National Monument makes massive fossil discovery

The bones are the first to be excavated in more than a century.

First new fossils in more than 100 years discovered at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument

Routine parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first ...
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First new fossils unearthed at Dinosaur National Monument since 1924

The big picture: Park staff identified the fossils on Sept. 16 during parking lot construction near the Quarry Exhibit Hall ...

Prototaxites Fossil Explained: Why This Prehistoric Colossus Still Baffles Scientists

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...

Fossils found at Dinosaur National Monument, first excavation in 100 years

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus fossil expands early hominin range

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...
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Jumping giants: Fossils show giant prehistoric kangaroos could still hop

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...