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World's 'Most Perfect Fossil' Found in Illinois by Professor of Biology
On the Illinois prairies William C. Darrah, instructor in Biology, discovered "the most perfect plant fossil over found," and in the trackless forests of the Pico del Yaque Mountains in the ...
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Inside the fossil hunt: Digging for the monsters of Illinois’ Mazon Creek
Northern Illinois doesn’t have any dinosaurs ... Most of the museum-quality Mazon fossils were found and collected by amateurs, including Holm’s parents. Schoolchildren, scout troops and ...
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Fossil nerds and speculators help make the Field Museum's Mazon Creek collection world-famous
Northern Illinois doesn’t have any dinosaurs ... Most of the museum-quality Mazon fossils were found and collected by amateurs, including Holm’s parents. Schoolchildren, scout troops and ...
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Illinois’ Field Museum acquires fossil of earliest known bird
CHICAGO — The Field Museum unveiled its acquisition Monday of a fossil showing the earliest known bird species — Archaeopteryx. Only a dozen other Archaeopteryx specimens have been found with ...