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2024
Monarch butterflies need help, and a little bit of milkweed goes a long way
July 30, 2024Press release type:
- Science
The ancestor of all modern birds probably had iridescent feathers
July 25, 2024Press release type:
- Science
Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs
July 2, 2024Press release type:
- Science
Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread
June 30, 2024Press release type:
- Science
Rewriting the armadillo family tree: a new species, plus a name change for the state mammal of Texas
June 25, 2024Press release type:
- Science
Field Museum Women's Board Elects First African American President
June 24, 2024Press release type:
- Events & Announcements
One in a million” blue-eyed cicada joins the Field Museum’s research collections
May 21, 2024Press release type:
- Science
Field Museum celebrates the cicada emergence with insect-pinning classes, Meet a Scientist events, and a bug-inspired meal at Big Star
May 8, 2024Press release type:
- Events & Announcements
Field Museum acquires fossil of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird
May 5, 2024Press release type:
- Exhibition
Field Museum’s Thorsten Lumbsch Elected as AAAS Fellow for Scientific Achievements
April 17, 2024Press release type:
- Events & Announcements
Fossil named “Attenborough’s strange bird” was the first of its kind without teeth
March 4, 2024Press release type:
- Science