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University of Missouri: Recreating Mazon Creek's 300-million-year-old Ecosystem
July 22, 2025
COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 22 (TNSjou) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release:

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Recreating Mazon Creek's 300-million-year-old ecosystem

A new study from the University of Missouri sheds light on how exceptional fossil preservation at Mazon Creek captured the diversity of life across land, delta and sea.

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More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois out . . .

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