Tag: New Jersey
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Meteorite That Crashed Into New Jersey Home Contains Rare Ingredients of Life
Gizmodo has news of a meteorite that crashed into a Hillsborough, New Jersey home in July 2024. A recent paper in the journal Science Advances details research into both the makeup and the potential origin of the meteorite.
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The Day The Dinosaurs Died : Up First from NPR
NPR’s Up First has a story about the a New Jersey fossil hotspot… also the day the dinosaurs died. In 2007, paleontologist Ken Lacovara suspected he’d made a huge discovery in an unexpected spot. Tucked behind a Lowe’s hardware store in a strip mall in New Jersey he found one of the most intact fossil…
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Behind a New Jersey Hardware Store, a Paleontological Bonanza
Atlas Obscura has an interesting story about a fossil site in southern New Jersey. The site dates to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. There is an episide of TED’s pindrop, that also tells the story. Learn about Ken Lacovara, discoverer of Dreadnoughtus in 2005 and dinosaurs in New Jersey!…
