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Article: DinoMite Dinosaur Park Proposed for Pr. George's; DinoStore and Dino-Slide to Be Featured
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- The Washington Post
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- July 18, 1992
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Dig this.
There are enough prehistoric bones embedded in the clay soil and
lignite near U.S. Route 1 south of Laurel for a sort of real-life
Jurassic Park: a place for the public to come and dig for fossils
under the watchful supervision of trained paleontologists.
Then, under the most expansive concept proposed to state and
county officials, visitors could also buy souvenirs in the
DinoStore, go down the Dino-Slide in the Kiddie Dinosaur Playground
and watch plastic reptiles rise from a pond and mechanical dinosaurs
move in the woods of Dinosaur Forest.
"Dinosaur Park" is the brainchild of peripatetic paleontologist
Peter M. Kranz, a science teacher at the District's School Without ...