The fossils at the Mazon Creek site are so abundant and so well-preserved that researchers can reconstruct a detailed ...

In May, scientists excavated the fossils at Mazon Creek, which is about an hour's drive southwest of the city.

Chicago's Mazon Creek fossil site is being excavated and studied by Field Museum researchers, revealing ancient creatures, ...

A new study from the University of Missouri reveals how the remarkable fossil preservation at Mazon Creek recorded a wide ...

One of the "world's best fossil sites" is located just an hour outside of the Windy City, according to Chicago Field Museum ...

The fossils at the Mazon Creek site are so abundant and so well-preserved that researchers can reconstruct a detailed impression of the prehistoric ecosystem of which they were a part. Noel Brennan ...

The Mazon Creek fossil beds in Illinois, which formed 309 million years ago, capture a glimpse of water-dwelling species that lived during the warm, wet Carboniferous period (358.9 million to 298. ...

Turning things upside down The fossils “have been hiding in the 310-million-year-old Mazon Creek fossil deposit of northern Illinois” for decades, according to the museum.