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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 extinct, mammals Join the Lincoln Memorial Garden Nature Center at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 9, 2024 to hear from Dr. Pardi, a vertebrate paleontologist and curator of Geology at the Illinois State Museum's Research & Collections Center, about fossil finds in Illinois and what they can teach us about the giants that used to live in our backyards. Open to all ages.