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Despite its name, Dinosaur Park in Laurel, Md., doesn't look as though it would be the scene of the most significant discovery of dinosaur fossils in Maryland in almost 140 years. Tucked behind a modern industrial office park in a Washington, D.C., suburb, the fenced-in 2-acre site is a rugged but rather ordinary-looking plot. There's nothing Jurassic-y about it at all.
A paleontologist called the park “the most important dinosaur dig site in America east of the Mississippi.”
Paleontologists at Dinosaur Park are thrilled about a newly announced bone bed, a rare cluster of many different prehistoric species that called Laurel,...
Maryland paleontologists and volunteers discovered the largest theropod fossil in Eastern North America, leading to the discovery of a bone bed of fossils in a geologic layer.
The bone bed discovery is extremely rare for the Eastern US.