A vertebra bone that has iridescent rainbow coloring on one side.

Working in Paleontology: An Introduction to the Collections

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Illustration of a forest scene, with prehistoric animals on either side of a creek. In the foreground, a black and blue striped lizard-like animal perches on a rock as it appears to hunt a winged insect. A smaller lizard crosses a log over the creek. On the other side, two flat-faced, pig-sized animals approach the water’s edge, and a dinosaur creeps in the background.

These New Fossil Discoveries Show Why Evolution is the Coolest

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Side-by-side graphic of SUE the T. rex, showing before and after changes. The areas that have been moved or changed are highlighted in gray.

A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE

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Compare how SUE's shape and pose changed from 2000 (left) to 2018 (right).

SUE the T. rex dinosaur skeleton on display in a museum gallery. Screens behind the dinosaur show a forest scene.

SUE the T. rex

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Illustration of a large, long-necked dinosaur on a tropical beach

New Titanosaur on the Map, Mansourasaurus

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Caihong juji. Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski

This Rainbow Dinosaur Had Iridescent Feathers

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Caihong juji

A woman sitting at a desk with art supplies, holding a pencil in hand and drawing a nautilus

Bringing Fossils to Life Through Art

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Two human scientists fiddling with my gastralia.

From T. rex to Titanosaur, Big Dinosaur Changes

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Beachgoer’s Guide to Lake Michigan Fossils and Rocks

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Beachgoer's Guide to Lake Michigan Fossils and Rocks

The Field Museum

Fossil Myths: Cyclopes, Griffins, & Magic Fairy Bread

Fascinating Meteorites With Clues To Understanding Our Solar System

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The Meteorites exhibition, now open at the Museum

Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Is the Tully Monster a Vertebrate or an Enigma?

Side-by-side of a woman seated at a desk, working on a drawing, and a close-up of an illustration of orange foxes

Women in Art: Adrienne Stroup, Geology Collections Assistant

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Today’s Rare Meteorites Were Once Common

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Artist’s rendering of the space collision 466 million years ago that gave rise to many of the meteorites falling today. 
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Today's Rare Meteorites Were Once Common

An artist's rendering of an prehistoric carnivore called a beardog, with it's mouth open reaching for an insect.

Fossil "Beardogs" Shed Light On Evolution Of Dogs

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© Monica Jurik, The Field Museum

SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex’s Arm for Argonne Study

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Fossil skeleton of SUE the T. rex

SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex's Arm for Argonne Study

Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

An artist's rendering of a small dinosaur being chased through a field by two larger dinosaurs, while two other small dinosaurs run away in the background.

Newly-discovered dinosaur had “T. rex arms” that evolved independently

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© Jorge González and Pablo Lara

Zoomed in photo of a fly-like insect trapped in orange amber

Revisiting “Jurassic Park”: Could Dinosaurs Really be Cloned?

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Field Museum specimen of an insect trapped in 40-million-year-old Baltic amber.

A fossil of a Sclerocormus parviceps, a sea-dwelling reptile, shown with a ruler to show scale.

Sea-dwelling Reptile Fossil Hints At Rapid Evolution After Mass Extinction

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© Da-yong Jiang

Tully monster mystery SOLVED!

Monsters Storm The Field

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Compiling an atlas of phylogenetic characters for anomodont therapsids

Fossil Fish, PT. III: The Preparation

About the Turnbull Collection

Media

SUE's Microbes go to Space

New Giant Sea Predator Discovered

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Science at FMNH : Ep. 45 - Equipment for a Paleontological Dig

Science at FMNH : Ep. 40 - Ancient Trade and Exchange

Science at FMNH : Ep. 13 - The Geologic Record & Environmental Change

Unusual meteorite donated to the Field Museum

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Making the skeletons dance

Space Travel Time and Preatmospheric Size of Mifflin

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Fossil Invertebrates Diversity

Photo Archives Geology Gallery

Photo Archives Zoology Gallery

Photo Archives Anthropology Gallery

Grainger Hall of Gems Exhibition Photo Gallery

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Adrienne Stroup

Constance Van Beek

Akiko Shinya

Jingmai O'Connor

Lance Grande

William Simpson

Ken Angielczyk

Paul Mayer

Michael Donovan

James Holstein

Media for Focus: Fossil Invertebrates

Scott Lidgard

Maria Valdes

Phil Heck

Philipp Heck

Fabiany Herrera Tolosa

Olivier Rieppel

Pia Viglietti

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Collection

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Cast of "Stela A" from Copan, Honduras. It is pictured here on display in the hall of Aboriginal Sculpture in the South Court at the Field Columbian Museum, c.1905. Collected by Edward H. Thompson, this stela cast was originally on exhibit in the Anthropological Building of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. © The Field Museum, CSA17054, Photographer Charles Carpenter.

North American Obsidian

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Micronesian Collections

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Micronesian navigation chart made from bamboo strips, cowrie shells, and fiber string from Majuro, Marshall Islands and collected by Marvin Montel-Cohen.  Catalog Number 3346.268405. © The Field Museum, A3513_268405_ATFront.

Mesofossils

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A low relief panel, or frieze, by Henry Hering depicting a winged female figure wearing a flowing gown and holding a globe with North and South American continents and a torch representing fire.

Geology Collections

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