County selects Hemet Museum to handle dinosaur bones found locally

RIVERSIDE - Dinosaur bones unearthed in Riverside County will have a home at the Western Science Center in Hemet, in accordance with a policy enacted today by the Board of Supervisors.

Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone, in whose district the museum is located, won unanimous board support to direct all future fossil finds to the repository instead of the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, which has received paleontological artifacts recovered locally for years under the Riverside County general plan.

The Western Science Center, located near Diamond Valley Lake, opened in 2006 and no...