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Biogeography
February 24th, 2011
Part of a rare guide series on butterflies of the Amazonian Colombia.
January 31st, 2011
The Mazon Creek fossil invertebrate collection is one of the outstanding collections in the Geology Department.
January 31st, 2011
The Camiguin Hanging Parrot (Loriculus camiguinsis) is a new species described in a 2006 article in Fieldiana written by J. G. Tello, J. F. Degner, J. M. Bates and D. E. Willard.
January 13th, 2011
The Museum offers a modest number of grants and fellowships to visiting scientists and students for research and training in our scientific collections. Grants are open on a competitive basis to all individuals in the national and international scholarly community working on problems related to natural history.
January 13th, 2011
Exhibition ran from Oct 28 2008 - Apr 19 2009. Explore the grandeur and sophistication of one of history's greatest civilizations—the Aztec Empire—and find out how a community that began in the middle of a lake eventually became the capital of an empire. Hundreds of spectacular artifacts and works of art assembled together for the first time provide a look into the remarkable rise and fall of The Aztec World.
January 13th, 2011
Engaging youth from Chicago and Fiji in the stewardship of coral reefs
January 12th, 2011
Tanzanian mammals are some of the world's biggest and smallest, and many are yet to be discovered. This site (in both English and Kiswahili) both celebrates this phenomenal animal diversity and helps Tanzanians to identify it.
January 12th, 2011
Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve is located in southeastern Peru. It is one of the largest and biologically richest protected areas in the world. Gazetted in 1973, it covers 18,812 km2, roughly the size of Wales or Massachusetts. Its habitats range from lowland tropical forests to montane cloud forests and moist pajonal grasslands. These differences reflect variation in elevation, from 365 m (1200 ft) at Boca Manu to the 3450 m (11320 ft) crest of the eastern Cordillera at Puesto de Vigilancia Acjanaco.
January 12th, 2011
The mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands is remarkably diverse and species-rich. As documented on this website, the terrestrial fauna is now known to include at least 206 native species (plus seven introduced species), in an area of only a bit over 300,000 square kilometers, one of the highest densities of native mammals in the world.
January 12th, 2011
The NSF, in partnership with academic institutions, botanical gardens, freshwater and marine institutes, and natural history museums, seeks to stimulate and enhance taxonomic research on poorly known groups of organisms and help prepare future generations of taxonomic experts.