The November 2025 General Meeting was held on Friday, November 14th, 2025 via Zoom. Melissa Pardi, Curator of Geology at the Illinois State Museum, presented “Mammals of Illinois’ Ice Ages”.

Did you know that Illinois used to have elephants? During the last ice age, North America was home to a wide variety of large, now extinct, mammals. Come hear about fossil finds in Illinois and what they can teach us about the giants that used to live in our backyards.