Archaeologists Unearth Dinosaur Fossil in Incredibly Ironic Location

Dinosaur discoveries are nothing new in Colorado, but this one took scientists by surprise because it was found beneath a dinosaur museum’s own parking lot.

While drilling 763 feet into the ground as part of a geothermal energy study, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science unearthed a fossilized vertebra belonging to a small, plant-eating dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. 

The bone, roughly hockey puck-sized, was buried for an estimated 67 million years, NBC News reported.