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.
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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