Wouldn’t you know it? Just a few weeks after I leave the garden state, the New Jersey State Museum – where I was a research associate – gets enough funding to start an extensive excavation of the extremely fossil-rich muck of the Inversand marl pit. This is great news. The Inversand pit is one of the last sites of its kind in the state – one of the few places left in New Jersey where paleontologists can investigate what life was like in the area 65 million years ago. (Despite the importance of New Jersey’s fossil sites to the history of paleontology – especially the study of dinosaurs! – many of the sites have been closed or paved over.) I’m