By Sarah
B. Puschmann, Staff Writer | September 8, 2017 11:56am ET
A
construction crew in Colorado was forced to stop work on a new fire and police
station recently when one of the workers hit something unusual: a pair of bones
from a Triceratops that lived more than 65 million years ago.
The
fossils were found by the construction crew in Thornton, Colorado, on Aug. 25.
More
bones have since been excavated by Joe Sertich, a vertebrate paleontologist
from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who is overseeing the
excavation, and his team. The crew, which has been working since Aug. 30, has
discovered major parts of the skull, including parts of the lower jaw and
mouth, both of the horns
above the eyes, and portions of the braincase. But in addition,
the team has also found bones from the rest of the Triceratops' body,
including vertebrae, ribs and a shoulder blade, Sertich told Live Science in an
email. [Tiny
& Old: Images of 'Triceratops' Ancestors]
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