 towering over the water on a hot summer's day but i'm not actually headed to the statue itself as i found out when i linked up once again with district fossil hunter christopher barr it's beautiful and it's very impressive but the one thing it doesn't have is fossils if you head across the street instead to the memorial gift shop an innocuous rectangle no bigger than a pharmacy you'll find them they went extinct about 66 million years ago about the same time as the dinosaurs