Albeit not recently. This is Hadrosaurus foulkii as on display at the Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia. I was fortunate enough to visit on the last day of this exhibit.It turns out that this dinosaur was discovered a scant 15 miles from where I live. Which meant it or others like it were wandering around in my neighborhood some 80 million years ago. And it became the the state dinosaur of New Jersey in 1991.
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Aren't you glad he is not alive now! Scary!
That is really fascinating. I just spent a good bit of time on that excellent site and learned a lot. I had no idea that the science of paleontology had its beginnings in NJ. Thanks, Steve!
How interesting. Just think of him as an old neighbor!!
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