Smithsonian Highlights Dinosaurs From its Backyard

Late last year, Maryland's Prince George's County got a new dinosaur park—a Cretaceous-age site which will continue to fuel the work of scientists and educate the public about the prehistory of the state. To help celebrate the establishment of this park, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has just opened the exhibit "Dinosaurs in Our Backyard," which highlights a few of the fossils from the park and the role amateur collectors can play in helping professional paleontologists better understand the life of the past. The exhibit case can be seen in the first floor fossil halls.

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Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications.