One of the world’s foremost paleontologists works at the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum of Rowan University in Mantua Township.

Dr. Kenneth Lacovara took News 12 crews down into the quarry at the park.

“Down at the bottom here, we would be standing on an ancient ocean floor that is 66 million years old and on average, every foot step takes us back in time 300,000 years,” Lacovara says.

Lacovara says that over the last 17 years, researchers have excavated about 250 square meters of the area and have found more than 100,000 fossils representing over 100 species.

“All of them 66 million years old. All of them from the last moment of the dinosaurs,” he says.

More information about the museum can be found HERE.