You probably have a member of your family that you’re not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom’s ...

On April 3, the Field Museum debuted Woolly Dogs, a temporary exhibition within Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, ...

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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 ...

Sons of famous naturalist President Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt inherited their father’s love for nature and conservationist attitude. Over the course of two expeditions through ...

Part of the series: A. Watson Armour III Research Seminar Series ...

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 ...

Twenty-foot-long specimens described as separate species from their cousins, named after mythology’s Hydra A fossil called Tanystropheus was first described in 1852, and it’s been puzzling scientists ...

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 ...

About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth’s poles, and the new range of temperatures around the planet set the stage ...