US construction crew finds 66-million-year-old triceratops skeleton in Colorado

Construction crews breaking ground on a new fire and police station north of Denver, Colorado have unearthed a 66-million-year-old triceratops skeleton, sparking a flurry of scientific interest in this iconic herbivore. Diggers working on a site in Thornton — population 137,000 — encountered an immovable object on August 25. One of the workers thought it might be a fossil, so they called the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Curator Joseph Sertich arrived at the scene and identified the bones as belonging to a triceratops. “This is a pretty small triceratops,” Sertich said in a Facebook Live broadcast from the work site on Wednesday. This fossil is about half the size of triceratops unearthed in Montana and North and South Dakota. “We don’t really know why,” Sertich said.