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Construction crews repaving a parking lot at Dinosaur National Monument's Quarry Exhibit Hall in September 2025 exposed a 150-million-year-old Diplodocus skeleton just inches beneath the surface — the first fossil excavation at the site since 1924. The discovery, which yielded 3,000 pounds of fossils including 14 tail vertebrae and multiple limb bones, has reignited questions about how the National Park Service balances infrastructure development with paleontological preservation on fossil-rich federal lands.