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America’s top fossil park is in New York
About 10 miles south of Buffalo, a 54-acre park sits on what used to be a cement quarry.
Three hundred and eighty million years ago, this same ground lay at the bottom of a warm, shallow sea south of the equator. That ocean teemed with trilobites, corals, crinoids, and primitive fish.
Today, all of them wait for you in the rock. You can dig them out yourself, and you keep everything you find. The best part is how easy it is to pull the past right out of the ground.
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A bankrupt cement company left behind a science goldmine
The Penn Dixie Cement Corporation ran this quarry until it went out of business in the 1960s…