Mazon Creek: Illinois' Tropical History

The Mazon Creek region is a fossil rich area approximately 60 miles away from Chicago. Fossil hunters have traveled there for decades to search for evidence of what life looked like long ago. The fossil evidence paints a picture of a 300 million year old tropical forest adjacent to a shallow marine environment.

Join members of ESCONI, the Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois including Jeremy Zimmerman (Field Trip Coordinator), Rich Holm (Historian/Web Administrator), and Jack Wittry (Field Museum Collections Associate) as they recount some of their own discoveries in Mazon, and showcase the plants and animals of ancient Illinois.