A former gravel pit behind a strip mall in Mantua Township, Gloucester County, has become one of the most scientifically significant fossil excavation sites on Earth, and is now open to visitors as the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University.
NPR reported the story of how paleontologist Ken Lacovara transformed an overlooked suburban dig into a window on the mass extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs.
Lacovara, who discovered the giant sauropod species Dreadnoughtus in 2004, a dinosaur that later appeared in Jurassic World Dominion, had spent decades working at remote sites across Patagonia, Montana, the Gobi Desert, and Egypt…