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Heritage Center Opening

The new Dickinson Fossil Heritage Center is scheduled to open June 16th at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Royal in northeast Nebraska.

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Reporter: The Associated Press

The new Dickinson Fossil Heritage Center is scheduled to open June 16th at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Royal in northeast Nebraska.

The center will feature education exhibits, a fossil dig area and fossil bone puzzles. There also will be exhibits that focus on petrified wood and on Nebraska's rivers.

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park contains the fossilized skeletons of extinct rhinos, camels, horses and other animals lying in the volcanic ash that killed them about 12 million years ago.

The park sits about two miles west and six miles north of Royal.