Tag: Mastodon
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Video for ESCONI November 2025 General Meeting – “Mammals of Illinois’ Ice Ages”
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…
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A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of Mastodon fossils. A homeowner was mowing his lawn in Orange County, New York when he spotted strange shaped poking up through his plants. His first thought was they were old baseballs. Subsequent digging revealed they were rather fossil teeth with a complete mastodon jaw. The prehistoric…
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Throwback Thursday #221: Looking Back at ESCONI for July 2024
This is Throwback Thursday #221. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 25 Years Ago – July 1999 50 Years Ago – July 1974 70 Years Ago – July 1954…
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Roy Plotnick: The Real Monsters of the Midway: Mammoths and Mastodons of the Chicago Region
Roy Plotnick has a new article over on Medium. This time he’s written about Mammoths and Mastodons discovered in the Chicago area. I knew there were a bunch found, but wow! On October 25, 1880, workers putting in a sewer line along Fowler Ave. (now Schiller St.) just west of Wicker Park on the north side…
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Three Rivers Library Minooka Branch Hosting an Exhibition of Locally Found Pleistocene Mammal Fossils
The Three Rivers Library Minooka Branch is currently hosting an exhibition of Pleistocene mammal fossils found by a local farmer, John Bamford. in rural Minooka. The bones, found in 1901, were rescued from deterioration and oblivion by George Langford Sr. in 1912. The bones eventually were acquired by The Field Museum. The most famous of…
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Field Trip: March 3, 2012: Ancient “Elephants” Marathon
Come join us on Saturday, March 3, 2012 for a field trip as we explore many of the ancient elephants (a.k.a., mammoths and mastodons) that have been excavated and preserved around DuPage County. Jack MacRae, Naturalist, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County will lead us on the day-long excursion and field experience. This is a…
