Denver Museum's Rare Dinosaur Bone

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Denver museum known for dinosaur displays finds fossil under its parking lot

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The bone came from a bore hole drilled more than 750 ft ( 230 meters ) deep to study geothermal heating potential for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science .

A vertebra of a smallish, plant-eating dinosaur is believed to be the source.

It lived in the late Cretaceous period around 67.5m years ago .

Only two similar finds have been noted in bore hole samples anywhere in the world.

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