Dinosaur National Monument uncovers fossils for the first time in a century
The fossils are believed to belong to a large, long-necked dinosaur called Diplodocus. These species are commonly found in the area’s historic bone beds.
Park officials said employees, Utah Conservation Corps crew, volunteers and construction workers helped exhume the remains.
The museum discovers a rare 67-million-year-old dinosaur bone under its parking lot
Dinosaur Monument staff work on excavated dinosaur fossils in the Quarry Exhibit Hall parking lot between September and October. (NPS/Rebecca Hunt Foster)
Between mid-September and mid-October, crews removed nearly 3,000 pounds of excavation and surrounding rock. The material is now being cleaned and studied Utah Natural History Field House State Park Museum in Vernal, where visitors can watch the preparation process in the museum’s paleontology lab.
The site has not been excavated since 1924, when fossil removal efforts ended after a series of excavations in the early 20th century led by the Carnegie Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the University of Utah. Dinosaur National Monument was established in 1915.
In this undated photo, a full-size model of Diplodocus is shown in Dinosaur Park at the Natural History Museum in Vernal, Utah. (John J. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Some of the newly discovered fossils are already on display in the Quarry Exhibit Hall, often called the “Wall of Bones,” as well as in the Utah Field House Museum. the Exhibition hall It is the park’s most popular attraction and is located above the original Carnegie Quarry, where visitors can view about 1,500 dinosaur fossils still embedded in the rocks.
A Diplodocus skeleton looms over the Hall of Fossils at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on June 08, 2019. The species lived 152 million years ago. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Following the excavation, crews completed the parking and roadway improvement project, which included new concrete and asphalt work and accessibility improvements around the exhibit hall.
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