Edelman Fossil Park & Museum Springs to Life With Replicas, Fossil Quarry, and VR

South Jersey used to be a seabed and there are fossils laying below the earth’s surface waiting to be found.

A visitor pops up into a dome in the middle of a diorama in the Dinosaur Coast Gallery at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, during a media preview March 5, 2025, before the museum officially opens March 29. The dome is entered through a child-sized tunnel, part of the interactive environment depicting the authentic lives of East Coast dinosaurs from 66 million years ago. Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

By Henry Savage From The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia region is entering a new era of dinosaur discovery, reaffirming South Jersey as one of the world’s most significant sites for paleontology.