Comparisons of bats collected over time suggests that the biggest bats are selectively hunted Flying foxes are the biggest ...
Pre-Registered Illinois field trips are FREE everyday of the week! Free Wednesdays are the perfect opportunity for you to explore our general admission exhibitions with your family or a group of ...
The Field Museum is renovating and reimagining its galleries of Africa and ancient Egypt, opening in spring 2028. These galleries will trace the origins of humanity and explore Africa’s powerful and ...
309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, the area around Chicago was a swampy river delta swarmed with early land-dwellers, giant insects, and strange swimming animals. What once was a hot ...
About 66 million years ago, a dinosaur—maybe a T. rex or a Nanotyrannus—ate a bird. The record of that meal, in the form of fossilized poop, has survived to today, preserving the best example of a ...
Slash, aka Saul Hudson, is probably best known as the guitarist from Guns N’ Roses. But there’s more to Slash than his music. He’s also a lifelong reptile lover and an avid supporter of zoos and ...
A fossil bed in northwestern China is littered with the remains of hundreds of prehistoric birds—including some whose broken bones were crushed into pellets, similar to those coughed up by modern owls ...
This newly-discovered blue octopus from the Galápagos Islands could curl up in the palm of your hand
The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth— things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in ...
Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...
4.5 billion years. 27,000 square feet of evolutionary exploration. In the Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, get to know the many creatures that have roamed the earth throughout history, from ...
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