Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday November 18 2003 — All Museum unveils Triceratops skull DENVER (AP) — Children let out a collective "wow" as the Museum of Nature and Science unveiled its newest dinosaur fossil Monday d seven-folong 1 (MX) pound Triceratops skull The fossil discovered at a home construction site near ' Brighton by a dinosaur buff on Nov 10 is the second nearly complete skull of the rhinoceros-sized dinosaur found along the Front Range and the first in metro Denver Paleontology curator Kirk Johnson said the fossil was buried in sand from the Rocky Mountain streams about 67 and 68 million years ago The rest of the animal was probably eaten by scavengers or flowed ot AP photo Ken Carpenter curator of paleontology and chief preparator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science uses an orange to demonstrate where the eye socket was on the skull of a Triceratops at the museum in Denver on Monday downstream ‘‘This animal was one of the ' first to see the Rocky Mountains and then it was buried by the water that flowed from them" Johnson said Experts say the dinosaurs which had two horns on top of their heads and one on their snouts were as common as rats when the Front Range was much warmer and wetter than it is now Their fossils are common in Colorado but most are small fragments Bruce Young a retired geolo- gist and computer operator from Longmont discovered the' skull alter g crews exposed it last week Half of the skull is believed to have been shorn off by a bulldozer because grooves were found on the fossil Young 5 a volunteer fossil hunter for the museum had earth-movin- 1 In a recent study begun scouring the urea a month ago after visiting his son's house near the site When he saw the crews had exposed sandstone he knew orange-re- d they hud reached a layer where other dinosaurs have been buried in the Denver area After getting permission from the construction company to search Young first discovered a pair of horns just off the site He returned four times before discovering what the bulldozer left behind "I've been on a good high all week because of this” said with Young wearing a someone’s back yard Ken Carpenter the museum's chief fossil preparator discos- ered the slate's first Triceratops skull 20 years ago east of the Pawnee Grasslands It is on dis- -' play at the Weld County gov- eminent offices in Greeley The first Triceratops remains ever discovered a pair of horns were found in I XX1) near downtown IXnver across from where the REI store now stands A Triceratops fossil was also discovered during the con-- : struclion of C'oors Field home of the Colorado'Rockies ing the team to adopt a dinosaur named Dinger as its mascot The newly discovered skull w ill be on display in the muse-uin- 's drawings of dinosaurs The soil removed to reveal the skull was hauled off and used as fill Young suspects the other half of the skull could he in that fill perhaps buried in lohbythrough of nearly 600 integrated health systems published in number one in the nation for the third time in four years Even more meaningful the study confirms that some of the nations leading health care is right here in Utah Modem Healthcare magazine IHC ranked - For more information about this studs-- visit IHCcom 7001 WBul Kwh conducted hr Vmun J da£otuw( rrvarrh fim ‘ (Z Intermountain Health Care T II E N U M E R O X E RATED : HEALTH ! I CARE SYSTEM : mid- - December as it is prepared for exhibition IN THE NATION ' |