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•A juice company dumped orange peels in a national park. Here's what it looks like now.
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A juice company dumped orange peels in a national park in Costa Rica, free of charge, in a heavily grazed, largely deforested area nearby.
The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade.
Researchers from Princeton University studied the site over the course of the following three years.
Researchers found a tayra (a dog-sized weasel) and a giant fig tree three feet in diameter, on the plot.
This article originally appeared seven years ago.
Two scientists and the rind of an unassuming fruit had buried the sign.
The sign is a big honking sign, says Choi.
Choi says it was a "big honking" sign that had been buried for 19 years.
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