Coal mines home to large fossilized forest bed

GEORGETOWN – Fifth-grade teacher Leslie Holycross and her students were fascinated by the fossils they saw during their February field trip to the Vermilion Grove coal mine.

At that time, the Judith Giacoma Elementary School class didn't know that scientists had been working since 2004 in that same mine, slowly uncovering one of the largest intact fossil forest beds ever discovered.

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