YOU CAN’T DIG A FLOWERBED IN COLORADO WITHOUT STUMBLING ON A FOSSIL OF SOME KIND, I SWEAR.  OF COURSE, I DON’T KNOW. I DON’T DIG FLOWER BEDS. MOSTLY I WRITE. WE DID HAVE COPROLITE IN OUR BACKYARD IN MANITOU SPRINGS YEARS AGO. EVERY TIME I TRIED TO FIND IT TO TAKE IN TO THE MUSEUM AND SEE IF IT WAS ANYTHING RARE/IMPORTANT, THE KIDS HAD PLAYED WITH IT AND LOST IT (I HAD BOYS!) :  Scientists say fossils found in Colorado are from 68-million-year-old triceratops.