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The Economic Times
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In 1858, a curious dig in a New Jersey marl pit turned out to uncover one of the most important dinosaur finds in US history

Most history-altering discoveries are not made in labs or universities. Sometimes they occur when workers dig up something odd in a farmer’s field, and no one really knows what to make of it.

In the late 1830s, one of the greatest events in the history of American paleontology took place in a muddy marl pit in Haddonfield, New Jersey.

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