[A Navy Vet]

I don't know why scientists are always surprised to find prehistoric fossils in areas they've never looked. The Cretaceous era (145 - 60 millions years ago) and the Jurassic era just after it. At the time, the Earth land masses were still shifting on its tectonic plates and of course still had comic bodies (meteors & asteroids) crashing into our rock.

Not being a paleontologist and haven't stayed at a Hilton hotel, I'm just not sure paleontology is an exact science.

[SunkenCiv]

Of course it is. Science is a method, not a body of knowledge (and there are some who pretend otherwise, they’re actually politicians), and the only way to find out stuff of this kind is to dig for it. That’s what sets the scientific method apart from ex cathedra statements.

[Fuzz]

Picking nits, the plates are still moving.