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🦕 Go back millions of years to a land ruled by giants! This immersive experience in Chicago brings you face to face with spectacular dinosaurs of the Jurassic.
Step back in time at the Chicago Garfield Park Conservatory. Prehistoric Chicago comes alive in an amazing botanical garden. We discover places you'll want to visit across the USA.
May 8, 2024 · May 8, 2024, 1:36pm CT. Chicago’s Washington Park is the new home for a Fossil Lab run by UChicago paleontologist Paul Sereno . A “Fossil Wonderland” is how the university describes the...
- Brenda Ruiz
Feb 8, 2021 · The ridge, from which the forest preserve takes its name, is a remnant of a prehistoric shoreline created by the glacial lake that predated Lake Michigan. As the waters of this ancient lake receded some 6,000 years ago, its former beach stood 25 feet taller than the adjacent lowland, which had once been the lake’s bottom.
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Lake Chicago was a prehistoric proglacial lake that is the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America 's five Great Lakes. Formed about 13,000 years ago and fed by retreating glaciers, it drained south through the Chicago Outlet River.
Mar 22, 2023 · Here, you'll find a recreation of an ancient Egyptian tomb, stand beneath a towering skeleton of Máximo the titanosaur, or encounter Chicago's most famous prehistoric...
Lush ferns, rocky outcroppings and an indoor lagoon evoke the swampy landscape of prehistoric Chicago. The Fern House is home to the cycads: ancient cone-bearing plants, ferns and fern allies (plants that thrive in similar conditions and emerged around the same time as ferns, like mosses and liverworts).
