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New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died

NPR Science · August 28, 2026 at 10:38 AM

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

His dig site is now a fossil park and museum. (Image credit: Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University )

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