50 Million Years, One Afternoon 

As the crowds of summer road-trippers thin, fall is a quiet, cool time to hunt 50-million-year-old fossils at Stonerose Interpretive Center in Republic, Wash. The nonprofit-run dig, located at the north end of town, sits atop what was once an ancient lake. As sediment and volcanic ash settled and hardened into shale, the layers preserved

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