When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey

by William B. Gallagher

Book Overview

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin examined the first dinosaur bone in America from Woodbury, Gloucester County, in 1787--decades before the word dinosaur was even coined? Or that when the first reasonably complete dinosaur skeleton in the world was unearthed in Haddonfield, Camden County, in 1858, it was a major scientific breakthrough which forced paleontologists to completely revise their picture of dinosaur anatomy? Few people know that New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813523494
• ISBN13: 9780813523491
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"