Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Research paleontologist and curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, CD
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Bill DiMichele
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FROM Bill DiMichele
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A Fossil Forest in an Illinois Coal Mine Springfield Coal is a series of coal seams under southern Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. Miners have known them for years and now, after all that digging, paleontologists are studying what's been left behind. They have to go down… and look up, because the largest fossilized forest ever discovered is on the roof of a massive coal mine. One scientist calls it "the closest thing you'll find to time travel." Bill DiMichele, curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History , is one of those who discovered the 300-million-year-old forest.
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