News

The Field Museum11d
Chicago’s rodents are evolving to handle city living
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 ...
The Field Museum1mon
Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos, and woolly monkeys
The Amazon Basin contains the world’s largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the Algodón, merge near the northern border of Peru, and the region shaped by these ...
The Field Museum1mon
Press Room - Field Museum
Thank you for accessing the Field Museum's Press Room. Our public relations team shares news stories and materials for use by the press. They can be reached via [email protected]. The Field Museum ...
The Field Museum1mon
Pokémon Fossil Museum Special Exhibition to Make North American Debut at Chicago's Field Museum
CHICAGO – Pokémon Fossil Museum, the Japanese special exhibition that compares beloved characters from the popular video games to real-life dinosaurs and other ancient animals, will be making its ...
The Field Museum12mon
Ancient Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru - Field Museum
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 ...
The Field Museum1y
Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread - Field Museum
Scientists describe nine new species of fossil grapes (60 to 19 million years old), including the oldest ones ever found in the Western Hemisphere Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on ...
The Field Museum1y
One in a million” blue-eyed cicada joins the Field Museum’s research collections
Left: The blue-eyed cicada. Photo by Daniel Le, Field Museum. Right: Greta Bailey, Jack Bailey at the Field Museum to donate the blue-eyed cicada. Photo by Danielle Williams, Field Museum. The cicadas ...
The Field Museum1y
It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle
Left: The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle. Photo by Fabiany Herrera and Héctor Palma-Castro. Right ...
The Field Museum1y
Crystals brought back by astronauts show that the Moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought - Field Museum
Left: Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, covered in moon dust. Photo courtesy of NASA. Right: A lunar zircon grain under a microscope. Photo courtesy of Jennika Greer. More than 4 billion years ago ...
The Field Museum2y
Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers—
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 ...
The Field Museum2y
Máximo the Titanosaur - Field Museum
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 ...