Why Can't Washington Find More Dinosaur Fossils?

It looked like any other shoreline rock at Sucia Island Marine State Park. But to the trained eye of Burke Museum research associates one afternoon in 2012, it was a groundbreaking discovery: Washington’s first dinosaur fossil.

The femur fragment of a tyrannosaur remains the state’s one-bone wonder. Among giant ferns and mammoth moss-covered trees straight off the set of Jurassic Park, traces of our planet’s giant prehistoric creatures have continued to avoid detection.

The “Suciasaurus”

On the shore of Sucia Island, a tiny arc of land in the north San Juans, researchers unearthed the fragment of a left thigh bone. It belonged

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