No one is going to get rich off selling Mazon Creek fossils; Adam Holm, 62, father of Daniel, certainly hasn’t. However, you can find his Mazon fossils on eBay, at the seller page fossilman-2008.

Fossil nerds and speculators help make the Field Museum's Mazon Creek collection world-famous Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money ...

The Mazon Creek fossil beds include a variety of sites, including local mine spoil piles, no-dig zones like the Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area, which requires a permit, ...

So far, fossils of this creature have only been found in Mazon Creek. Based on this, the creature must have been localized to the area. It really is an Illinois-specific feature.

The Mazon Creek fossil beds in Illinois, dating to the Carboniferous period (~309 million years ago), preserve an exceptionally diverse array of fossils, including plants, invertebrates, and rare ...

The monster is back! Well, not alive, but back in the scientific spotlight. In 1958 amateur fossil hunter Francis Tully found some strange fossils at the famous Mazon Creek site, about 15 miles ...

The fossils come from the 310-million-year-old Mazon Creek fossil deposits of northern Illinois. Mazon Creek is a world-famous Lagerstätte, a term used by paleontologists to describe a site with ...

Nondescript fossils turned up by the thousands at Mazon Creek, and they were often sold at local flea markets, or even discarded. Scientists published the first detailed scientific description of ...

The Mazon Creek fossil beds include a variety of sites, including local mine spoil piles, no-dig zones like the Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area, which requires a permit, ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old ...