Bones from 'longest dinosaur' found in US car park
The diplodocus bones were found by construction workers in a car park
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The bones of one of the longest dinosaurs in the world have been discovered in a car park in the US.
Construction workers first discovered the collection of dino fossils in September last year, after they began work digging up the car park at the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado.
That work was stopped and a team of palaeontologists - scientists who study dinosaurs - were called in to help look at, and dig up the fossils safely.
They think the bones belong to the long-necked Diplodocus dinosaur, which lived more than 150 million years ago.
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The dino discovery is the first excavation to take place at the Dinosaur National Monument in more than 100 years.
Between 1909 and 1924, lots of digs and discoveries took place, including the now famous 'Wall of bones' in the Quarry Exhibit Hall, which is made up of stegosaurus plates, allosaurus bones, Camarasaurus bones and 1,500 other fossil bones from ten dinosaur species.
Park staff and volunteers helped to remove around 1,360 kilograms of fossils and rock from the car park dig site.
So far around six metres of bones have been found, but diplodocus could grow as long as 24 metres!
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The fossils are now being cleaned and studied at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah, and some have gone on display at the museum in the Quarry Exhibit Hall.
The National Park Service have said that the rest of the digging at the site will have to wait until spring, until the threat of snow has passed.
