William Hammer, a dinosaur expert and professor in the geology department at Augustana College, discovered a previously unknown dinosaur, known as the cryolophosaurus, during a 1991 expedition to Antarctica.

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Scientists also have found fossils from long after the dinosaur era, the early part of what is sometimes referred to as the Age of Mammals — including the skull and tusks of a mastodon, which looked sort of like an elephant, that were found in 1968 in Prophetstown, Ill. That relic, along with fossilized mastodon and wooly mammoth teeth from the same era that were found in Rock Island County, is on display in the Fryxell Geology Museum at Augustana. It wasn’t until long after the age of dinos...

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