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Thursday, February 26
10:00 AM CST to Feb 26, 12:00 PM
Poetry Pop-up: Genetic PoetryUse the building blocks of life to build a poem.
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Thursday, February 26
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6:30 PM CST to Feb 26, 7:30 PM
A Conversation with Bob Weis, author of Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney ImagineeringJoin us for an enthralling conversation with Bob Weis, former president of Walt Disney Imagineering, and discover how dreams can fuel the impossible!
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Friday, February 27
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6:00 PM CST to Feb 28, 9:00 AM
Dozin' with the Dinos

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The amount of beautiful taxidermy is insane and I had the time of my life.
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The upper level is great, and the dinosaur and China exhibits were particular standouts.
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Two people stand in the Restoring Earth exhibition, looking at a peregrine falcon specimen.

Abbott Hall of Conservation: Restoring Earth

View of the inside of the Malott Hall of Jades. A prominent sign with the Chinese character for “jade” is visible in the foreground.

Elizabeth Hubert Malott Hall of Jades

A view of cases in the Regenstein Halls of the Pacific. Various objects are arranged in cases. A large pillar with "Vanuatu" printed across the top is visible to the left.

Regenstein Halls of the Pacific

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Grainger Science Hub

Stanley Field Hall

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Our scientists at work

Left: Artists rendering of a grey lizard-like animal eating ferns; Right: A man holding a 3D-printed replica of a small skull in his outstretched hand.

Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat its veggies

A life reconstruction of Archaeopteryx, including the oral papillae on the roof of its mouth, a bill-tip organ at the end of its beak, and a flexible-yet-sturdy tongue made possible by an extra tongue bone. Illustration by Ville Sinkkonen.

The earliest known bird had complex tongue bones and fleshy “teeth” on the roof of its mouth—which might have helped it snag the food it needed for flight

Left: a part of a fossilized mammal skull, with sediment in a tooth socket that turned out to be a nest built by a prehistoric bee. Courtesy of Lazaro Viñola López. Right: an illustration showing the bones and bee nests in the cave. © Jorge Mario Macho, Machuky Paleoart.

These fossils were the perfect home for ancient baby bees

A tiny bird fossil in the surrounding rock.

This fossil bird choked to death on rocks, and no one knows why

The North Entrance of the Field Museum on a clear, sunny day. Banners between the Museum’s columns advertise the Máximo the Titanosaur exhibition.

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