The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...

Renaming Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive has renewed interest in the multicultural legacy of the city's first non-Native settler. Before the Chicago City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive in ...

SUE the T. rex is an incredibly complete fossil, and Máximo the Titanosaur is a cast. Here’s why we have both. “Is that real?” This is a question we often hear from visitors as they roam the Field ...

See how many of these rocks and fossils you've spotted on the shore. Take a look at some of the more common rocks and fossils that can be spotted around the lake (particularly on the Michigan side).

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

Left: The mummified remains of Chenet-aa under a CT scanner Right: JP Brown analyzes the composite scans of a mummified individual on the computer. Field Museum 2024 Thanks to Halloween tales and ...

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. Photo by the Ucupe Cultural Landscape Archaeological Project A team of ...

Left: Artist’s rendering of Gaiasia jennyae. Credit: Gabriel Lio. Right: Skeleton, including the skull and backbone, of Gaiasia jennyae. Credit: C. Marsicano. Forty million years before the first ...

While their scaly armor and long claws look vaguely reptilian, armadillos belong to the same group of mammals as sloths and anteaters. There are nearly two dozen species of armadillos, from six-inch ...

Why are some display cases in this gallery covered? The Field Museum has covered several display cases in the Robert R. McCormick Halls of the Ancient Americas and the Alsdorf Hall of Northwest Coast ...

Thrinaxodon, an early mammal relative whose body had many new traits compared its contemporaries. These traits, like its complex teeth and the arrangement of its jaw muscles, likely helped Thrinaxodon ...

Two live tangled individuals of Gordionus violaceus from Germany; photo by Gonzalo Giribet, co-author of the paper. In a world full of bizarre animals, hairworms are some of the strangest: parasitic ...