The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is filled with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons. And in the scientific equivalent of tossing couch cushions, its scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil deep — really deep — below the surface of one of its own parking lots, the museum announced this week.

We won the dinosaur lottery,” says curator James Hagadorn, who helped ID the 67.5-million-year-old bit of bone.

When you watch a sparrow hop along your backyard fence or observe an eagle soaring through the sky, you’re witnessing living dinosaurs in action. This isn’t poetic language or scientific ... Read more The post Fossils That Prove Birds Are Just Dinosaurs in Disguise appeared first on bird-life.