{"id":25039,"date":"2025-03-31T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25039"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:25:42","slug":"a-new-dinosaur-museum-rises-from-a-hole-in-the-ground-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25039","title":{"rendered":"A New Dinosaur Museum Rises From a Hole in the Ground in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe\u2019s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be one of the world\u2019s most important fossil sites.<\/p>\n

But 66 million years ago, tantalizingly close in time to when the dinosaurs went extinct, a multitude of sea creatures died here \u2014 a \u201cmass death assemblage\u201d \u2014 and sank to the bottom of what was then a shallow sea.<\/p>\n

Because of its prehistoric past as a possible mass extinction gravesite, the hole that was once a quarry has become the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum.<\/p>\n

Built in Mantua, N.J., about 20 miles from Philadelphia, the museum welcomed its first paying customers this past weekend. For Kenneth Lacovara, a professor of paleontology and geology at nearby Rowan University and the museum\u2019s executive director, it is the culmination of a decade of work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re doing so much here that I think has never been done in any museum,\u201d said Dr. Lacovara, best known in paleontology for the discovery of Dreadnoughtus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fossils come with a hard-to-miss message from Dr. Lacovara, one that makes direct connections between the mass extinction 66 million years ago and today\u2019s rapidly changing climate, which is putting many species in danger of dying out.<\/p>\n

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Ten years ago, this was just a big hole in the ground behind a Lowe\u2019s home improvement store in southern New Jersey, an unlikely place to find what might be one of the world\u2019s most important fossil sites.But 66 million years ago, tantalizingly close in time to when the dinosaurs went extinct, a multitude of sea creatures died here \u2014 a \u201cmass death assemblage\u201d \u2014 and sank to the bottom of what was then a shallow sea.Because of its prehistoric past as a possible mass extinction gravesite, the hole that was once a quarry has become the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum.Built in Mantua, N.J., about 20 miles from Philadelphia, the museum welcomed its first paying customers this past weekend. For Kenneth Lacovara, a professor of paleontology and geology at nearby Rowan University and the museum\u2019s executive director, it is the culmination of a decade of work.\u201cWe\u2019re doing so much here that I think has never been done in any museum,\u201d said Dr. Lacovara, best known in paleontology for the discovery of Dreadnoughtus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever.The fossils come with a hard-to-miss message from Dr. Lacovara, one that makes direct connections between the mass extinction 66 million years ago and today\u2019s rapidly changing climate, which is putting many species in danger of dying out.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25041,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25042,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25039\/revisions\/25042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}