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Volunteers excavate fossils during the Edelman Fossil Park's 8th Annual Community Dig Day in Sept., 2019. These volunteers were looking for fossilized clams, oysters, teeth, burrows, bones and other remnants of past life. - Editor-in-Chief / Tara Lonsdorf

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park

Tara Lonsdorf February 25, 2020

Can you find dinosaurs in the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park at Rowan University? Why is the sand green? How old are the fossils in there? How do you gain access to digging for fossils in there? And...

Dr. Kenneth Lacovara gives an opening speech to the Dig Day visitors. -Photo/Tara Lonsdorf

Edelman Fossil Park hosts 8th annual Community Dig Day to encourage interest in sciences

Kalie VanDewater September 16, 2019

On Saturday, people from all over swarmed to a Rowan-owned fossil park behind a Lowe’s in Mantua Township. That park is the Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park, a paleontological site not only unique...

-Graphics Editor/Amanda Palma

Whit News Minute 9-26-2018

The Whit Staff September 26, 2018

  Alura Agnes brings you the latest Rowan news for Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.   For questions/comments about this story, email news@thewhitonline.com or tweet @TheWhitOnline.

Edelman Fossil Park's 7th annual community dig day. -Contributor / James Jackson

Edelman Fossil Park’s 7th annual Community Dig Day

James Jackson September 24, 2018

On Saturday, Sept. 22, thousands of local residents swarmed Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University for a day of digging. The park, which is located in Sewell, New Jersey, hosted its 7th annual Community...

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