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Scientists May Finally Know What An Enigmatic Fossil Creature Is Not, Yet They Are Unsure What It Actually Was
Unique to the Mazon Creek Formation in Illinois, it became its state fossil in 1989. Soft-bodied and relatively small (a living specimen would fit in a human hand), with its stalked eyes and long ...
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Scientists Can’t Quite Figure Out This Fossil Of A 308-Million-Years-Old Arachnid
The cool thing about fossils is that you never know what you ... “Douglassarachne acanthopoda comes from the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois and is about 308 million years old.
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Meet This 300 Million Year Old ‘Spiky Spider’—Found In One Of America’s Best Fossil Hunting Sites
They recently published their discovery in the Journal of Paleontology. “The Mazon Creek Fossil-Lagerstätte is rightly famous for the abundance of marine and non-marine fossil biota found in ...
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A Strange Fossil Unearthed In Illinois During The 1980s Revealed A Prehistoric Arachnid Once Roamed The State Over 308 Million Years Ago
A fossil of the creature was originally unearthed from the Mazon Creek deposit in northeastern Illinois by Bob Masek, a ...