Other dinosaur fossils found in California include Aletopelta coombsi, a kind of ankylosaur lived in the Late Crectaceous period in what is now Southern California, George said.

This finding refutes the hypothesis that any organics found in fossils must result from contamination.The fossil at the center of the discovery is a well-preserved sacrum of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur.

Scientists discovered a trove of rare dinosaur bones dating back 115 million years at Maryland’s aptly named Dinosaur Park, marking the first “bone bed” found in the state since 1887.

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.

The bones, which Bennison found in Del Puerto Canyon in Stanislaus County, represented the first scientifically documented discovery of a dinosaur fossil in California.

Other dinosaur fossils found in California include Aletopelta coombsi, a kind of ankylosaur lived in the Late Crectaceous period in what is now Southern California, George said.

Other dinosaur fossils found in California include Aletopelta coombsi, a kind of ankylosaur lived in the Late Crectaceous period in what is now Southern California, George said.