{
  "id": 3980733,
  "title": "New Jersey is a fossil hotspot, with answers about the day the dinosaurs died",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/new-jersey-is-a-fossil-hotspot-with-answers-about-the-day-the",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-28T14:38:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
    "slug": "npr",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2024/08/16/g-s1-140898/paleontologist-ken-lacovara-and-the-fifth-extinction-that-killed-the-dinosaurs"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and museum.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}