DENVER — A team at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is hard at work piecing together a "remarkably complete" set of Triceratops fossils.

A team of paleontologists and student interns discovered the Triceratops skull, lower jaws and neck during the museum's annual fieldwork in the Hell Creek Formation near Marmath, North Dakota. According to the museum, the roughly 67-million-year-old dinosaur is one of the heaviest fossils ever collected by the museum, second only to its Stegosaurus in the "Prehistoric Journey" preparation lab. Close-up of the exposed horn and fossil jacket encasing the Triceratops' shield. Inscription reads: "If you can read this, it means our Triceratops dreams came true."

"We brought a ginormous front loader out to collect this fossil, and when they weighed it

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