Tully Monster

With the new Jurassic Park movie raking in millions of dollars at the box office, dinosaurs are once again at the front of public consciousness. But millions of years ago, when there was very little public consciousness, were there dinosaurs running around what is now Illinois?

After the news recently broke about the new discovery of an ancient relative of the velociraptor on Great Britain's Isle of Wight, we couldn't help but wonder if there have been dinosaur fossils found here in the Land of Lincoln.