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The redevelopment of a played-out clay pit in Prince George's County will include an unexpected bonus for paleontologists and school kids: a dinosaur park.
The developer of an industrial park on the site has donated 7 1/2 acres of the 700-acre Muirkirk property for a public dinosaur preserve, complete with ancient tree species and an exposed layer of clay that has yielded up bits of dinosaurs for more than a century.
One of the latest finds - kept quiet for almost a year while the land was transferred to the government and fenced - was the 2-foot-long leg bone of a still-unidentified plant-eater. It's one of the largest and most complete dinosaur bones ever unearthed in Maryland.
A dinosaur dig in Md. -- baltimoresun.com
Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 2:45 PM EDT
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