During Meet a Scientist, you can find them in the Grainger Science Hub. They'll discuss their work and share real items from the museum’s collection of nearly 40 million objects. From collections care ...
Flying foxes are the biggest bats in the world; they look like German shepherd puppies with five-foot wingspans. But Madagascar's flying foxes are shrinking. In a new study, published in the Journal ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are countless different cultures and societies around the world, spanning thousands of years. One thing that they all have in common is that no matter what, death is a part of everybody’s life.
Baby fossil tetrapods show that the common ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals did not evolve from animals with amphibian-like tadpoles, as previously thought Life on our planet began in ...
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 ...
A huge fireball lit up thousands of square miles of Northern Mexico and Southwestern United States after midnight on February 9, 1969. The Allende meteorite shower spread over more than 150 square ...
In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...
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