See the latest science firsthand in the Grainger Science Hub. Come meet Sophie Shrand, creator and host of the popular web series Science with Sophie. This fun, interactive session introduces the ...

Come celebrate World Snake Day with Field Museum Associate Curator of Herpetology Sara Ruane! Sara will discuss snakes found locally and from around the world. Visitors can also get an up-close look ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...

CHICAGO – Pokémon Fossil Museum, the Japanese special exhibition that compares beloved characters from the popular video games to real-life dinosaurs and other ancient animals, will be making its ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

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 ...

What was once known as the nine-banded armadillo is actually four different species Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day ...

Two live tangled individuals of Gordionus violaceus from Germany; photo by Gonzalo Giribet, co-author of the paper. In a world full of bizarre animals, hairworms are some of the strangest: parasitic ...

Left: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber. Photo by Shundong Bi. Right: Illustration of what a newly hatched Enantiornithine bird may have looked like. Every ...

The titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum is a big deal—literally, the biggest dinosaur that scientists have discovered to date. This long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur lived over 100 million years ago in ...

A.B. Lewis was born in Clifton, Ohio in 1867 and went to graduate school at Columbia University where he studied under Franz Boas. In 1907 George Dorsey recruited and hired Lewis to work at the Field ...

Media for Press Release: What caused the holes in SUE the T. rex ’s jaw? Probably not an infection ...