Illinois Sate Museum

Students from Jonesboro School look at an Illinois State Museum exhibit featuring a Pleistocene forest-tundra of 24,000 years ago. The exhibit shows a giant short-faced bear pursuing a Harlan’s musk ox. Photo provided.
Jonesboro School’s 8th grade visited the Illinois State Museum in Springfield May 10. The trip was made possible through an Illinois biodiversity field trip grant.   The main purpose of the trip was for students to get an up-close look at how the ecosystems in Illinois have changed throughout the...

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