Remains Of The Mastodon, Mammoth Found In Illinois…
Associated Press F.N. D'ALESSIO November 27, 2005 at 08:59 AM
A few months after the last of the elephants left Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in May, amid complaints from activists that Illinois doesn't have a climate fit for such animals, remains of their ancient relatives were showing up around the state.
"It almost seemed that mastodons and mammoths were falling out of the trees for a few weeks," said paleontologist Jeffrey Saunders, the curator of geology at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. He's frequently the expert called in to verify and identify the teeth, bones and tusks of the giant Ice Age mammals when they are found in the state.
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Saunders said that in Illinois, mammoths typically seemed to have roamed glacial plains about 60 miles to the north of the swamps where the mastodons were living.
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