Denver, July 18 -- Paleontologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have discovered a special fossil hidden beneath the museum's parking lot.
The dinosaur bone came to light in January during a drilling project to study the layers of rock underneath the site, the museum announced on July nine.
The team had planned to pull an Earth core sample, a long cylindrical piece of rock or sediment, and came across a partial fossil, reported CNN.
At about 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) in diameter - the width of the extracted rock core - the disk-shaped specimen is the vertebra of a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the region more than 67 million years ago. At a depth of about 760 feet (230 metres) below the surface, it is the oldest and d...