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Input: But they are not the only fossil hunters here. 
  
 Once a year for the past four years, the quarry has been opened to the public, and citizen paleontologists have come in droves — about 1,500 for the most recent community event last fall. 
  
 “I found a pile of rocks,” said Alexandra Hopper of Mantua, one of the participants. “When we rinse them off, we’re hoping some of them are fossils.” The diggers kept the fossils they found, and there are plenty to go around. The doomed creatures in the pit were mostly clams and oysters. But the fossils of animals like crocodiles and sea turtles are here, too, as well as the occasional mosasaur, a ferocious aquatic lizard with two long teeth at the back of its throat that pointed toward its gullet, ensuring that any prey it swallowed would never struggle out. 
  
 Fossils are being found throughout the sediment that fills the pit, but the assemblage occupies a single concentrated layer. Bones and shells sometimes pile up when currents sweep dead sea creatures toward a particular eddy, where they accumulate over years or centuries. 
  
 But here the skeletons of the larger creatures remain largely intact. That suggests they all died at the same time and then settled gently on the sea bottom. ||||| Rowan University alumni Jean and Ric Edelman made history on Oct. 17, 2016, when they announced a $25 million gift to transform the Rowan University Fossil Park into a world-class destination for scientific discovery and “citizen science.” 
  
 The Fossil Park will be known as the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park at Rowan University. 
  
 The gift from the Edelmans is the largest ever from Rowan alumni and the second largest gift in the institution’s history. 
  
 Plans for the tract include a museum and visitor center, laboratory spaces, a nature trail, a paleontology-themed playground, and social spaces. Wildly popular community and school Dig Days at the site will continue. 
  
 For more on the Edelmans and their gift, visit rowan.edu/edelmangift. ||||| MANTUA TWP. — Imagine being a college student studying paleontology and having your own personal Jurassic Park as your classroom. 
  
 While lacking the real-life Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus rex chopping electrified fences and eating people, Rowan University tried to get as close as possible by purchasing the Inversand fossil site in Mantua to transform into an academic research site like no other. 
  
 At the bottom of the 65-acre quarry on hot and sunny Wednesday afternoon, about 100 people gathered to hear Rowan announce that it had purchased the site for $1.95 million. The quarry, off Woodbury-Glassboro Road, had been owned by the Inversand Company for nearly a century. 
  
 The university plans to create a new School of Earth and Environment and utilize the site as a naturally built "classroom" for research. 
  
 Rowan Univeristy President Dr. Ali A. Houshmand — a staunch supporter of growing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education — said purchasing the quarry is one more component that shows Rowan's commitment in furthering STEM learning. 
  
 "The next step of the economy is how do we clean water from the sea, how do we lead in drug delivery ... all of these things (take) science, engineering," said Houshmand said after the announcement. "We need an army of people in this field." 
  
 The school, and all the research and activities at the quarry will be headed by internationally recognized paleontologist Dr. Ken Lacovara, who recently joined Rowan's faculty. 
  
 He said: "School kids, citizens; when they find a 65-million-year-old fossil with their own hands, it's a transformative experience." 
  
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 "Swimming right through where your bodies are right now were a couple dozen different species of sharks, four species of big marine crocodile are here, four species of big sea turtles ... we find these things right here," Lacovara said during the event. 
  
 He believes the site could become internationally renowned. 
  
 The discovery of a bone bed at the fossil site a couple years ago led experts to believe the site might be directly tied to the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago — widely thought to have been caused by a large comet or asteroid impact. 
  
 Several years ago, the site was at risk of being lost to a redevelopment project of retail stores. However, after the economic downturn in 2008 plans changed. 
  
 Rowan University seized the opportunity to preserve the site for the long term. 
  
 Ashley Adams, a 25-year-old paleontology and geology graduate student at Rowan, was out digging at the site with her colleagues during the announcement. 
  
 "This might be a death assemblage of ... when dinosaurs died," she said. "This is a very unique site. There's not many sites you can just sit down and you know you'll be able to find something. It's abundant of bones." 
  
 State Senate President Stephen Sweeney and county and township officials all attended to celebrate the monumental purchase. 
  
 Rowan's board of trustees voted to move forward with the purchase of the site earlier this month. 
  
 Spencer Kent may be reached at skent@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerMKent. Find the South Jersey Times on Facebook. |||||
Output:
Amateur enthusiasts and kids on field trips have been flocking to a New Jersey quarry pit for years to dig up some of its many prehistoric fossils. Incredibly, this pit may also be the only known dinosaur graveyard dating back to their destruction 66 million years ago, the New York Times reports. "It sounds silly, but is it the case that this pit in South Jersey, behind Lowe's, has the one window into this pivotal moment in time?" asks Kenneth Lacovara, who teaches geology and paleontology at Rowan University. The pit, which was in a shallow sea on the dinosaurs' last day, happens to contain a host of fossils about 40 feet down—which puts it around the "extinction layer" marked by an element found in comets and asteroids called radioactive iridium. "We are in the trying-to-poke-holes-in-it phase," says Lacovara. "Certainly we have rocks that are near that time. I know we're damned close." Owned by a water treatment plant for nearly a century, it became unprofitable due to environmental regulations and was slated to become a lake—until Rowan, pressed by Lacovara, bought it for $1.95 million, the Star-Ledger reported in September. Now Lacovara wants even more school trips and fossil days so enthusiasts can search through the muck in Mantua Township, NJ. "We really want to integrate this in the community," he says. "Kids start to think of science as a process. It's a way of asking questions about your world."