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Living Dinosaurs | Scene Through the Lens

Today, we call them birds

March 31, 2025: Looking a lot like their prehistoric dinosaur ancestors, Canada geese take off in flight near the pond at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University.
March 31, 2025: Looking a lot like their prehistoric dinosaur ancestors, Canada geese take off in flight near the pond at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer

Every time I see a bunch of geese I immediately think of the “They’re flocking this way” scene in Jurassic Park.

Back when I “saw” my very first dinosaurs at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and bought a six inch-high cast iron model of what we kids back then still called a Brontosaurus (before it was “replaced” by Apatosaurus) my view of the largest animals ever to have walked Earth was definitely lizard-centric.

Since then, we’ve learned that birds are descendants of a group of two-legged, meat-eating bipedal dinosaurs called theropods, and I have alway marveled at both birds and dinosaurs.

So I was thrilled to photograph during a media preview earlier this month for the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University that just opened this past weekend.

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Since 1998 a black-and-white photo has appeared every Monday in staff photographer Tom Gralish’s “Scene Through the Lens” photo column in the print editions of The Inquirer’s local news section. Here are the most recent, in color: