A Colorado scientist says he’s “over the moon” after a construction crew in the city of Thornton reportedly stumbled upon a triceratops fossil last week. The construction workers were breaking ground for a new fire and police building when they encountered an obstruction in the dirt, The Denver Post reports. After a crew member pointed out that it could be a fossil, paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science were called in to investigate. Joe Sertich, the museum’s curator of dinosaurs, arrived at the site Monday and discovered to his delight that the workers had indeed unearthed something remarkable. “My heart was racing,” Sertich said in a statement posted on the city of Thornton’s website.

Source: Huffington Post August 31, 2017 18:22 UTC