The researchers found that the changes in climate didn’t explain the changes in the rodents’ skulls, but the degree of ...

Experience Africa Fashion, a one-of-a-kind exhibition celebrating the dynamic voices transforming African style. With over 180 works, including haute couture, ready-to-wear, and multimedia displays, ...

A Little History Located on Chicago’s iconic Lake Michigan shore, the Field Museum opened its current building to the public in 1921—but our story began years earlier. Our collection grew out of items ...

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 ...

A fossil called Tanystropheus was first described in 1852, and it’s been puzzling scientists ever since. At one point, paleontologists thought it was a flying pterosaur, like a pterodactyl, and that ...

Stars have life cycles. They’re born when bits of dust and gas floating through space find each other and collapse in on each other and heat up. They burn for millions to billions of years, and then ...

Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil accompanied with CT scan reconstruction. Bottom shows artist ...

Left: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber. Photo by Shundong Bi. Right: Illustration of what a newly hatched Enantiornithine bird may have looked like. Every ...

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 ...

What was once known as the nine-banded armadillo is actually four different species Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day ...

The titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum is a big deal—literally, the biggest dinosaur that scientists have discovered to date. This long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur lived over 100 million years ago in ...