You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at Dinosaur National Monument, on the border of Colorado and Utah. Workers were just doing some routine upgrades near the Quarry Exhibit Hall when they hit a layer of sandstone packed with fossils. It’s the first time anyone’s found fossils here in more than a century.
All of this kicked off on September 16, 2025. Crews started tearing up the old asphalt, and suddenly, bones that hadn’t seen daylight since the early 20th century. The construction teams stepped back so the palaeontologists could step in and figure out what they’d found, making sure nothing got damaged in the process.
