Ancient Iowan Superpredator Got Big by Front-Loading Its Growth in Its Youth Fossils found only…
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The Field Museum, officially known as the Field Museum of Natural History, is located in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest natural history museums in the world. Established in 1893 to house biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World’s Columbian Exposition, it was originally named the Columbian Museum of Chicago and later renamed in honor of its first major benefactor, Marshall Field. The museum is renowned for its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections, which total over 24 million items. Among its most famous exhibits are Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known, and a comprehensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. The Field Museum is not only a leader in the scientific research of biological and anthropological fields but also serves as an educational institution, offering various public learning programs and exhibitions to inspire curiosity about life on Earth.
A new method shows that most dinosaurs were warm-blooded, especially theropods and sauropods, offering insights…
The rediscovery of Gasteranthus extinctus in Ecuador offers new hope for the conservation of endangered…
Its close cousin Baryonyx probably swam too, but Suchomimus might’ve waded like a heron. Spinosaurus…
Approximately 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the westernmost reach of China’s Great Wall, paleontologists found…
A study shows the first true tusks evolved in dicynodonts, mammal relatives from over 200…
By measuring leaf light reflectance, researchers can detect genetic differences in plant populations, offering a…
“Mystery plant” from the Amazon declared a new species after nearly 50 years of flummoxing…
Birds’ gut bacteria change with geography, suggesting microbiomes help them adapt to different environments. The…
Redesignating an endangered subspecies as a separate species could help it get protected. Picture a…
Blood-sucking flies may be following chemicals produced by skin bacteria to locate bats to feed…
DNA from a century-old Xerces blue butterfly proves it was a distinct species. Its extinction from…
The end-Permian extinction was rapid in oceans but gradual on land. Fossils suggest species adapted…
In the largest-ever artificial insemination effort on sharks, researchers successfully produced 97 baby sharks, some…
Fluffy rodents twice the size of a gray squirrel survived for tens of thousands of…
Recordings of owls’ screeches used to help tell species apart. The Amazon rainforest is teeming…
Cracking the Mystery of Enantiornithine Diets It’s hard to know what prehistoric animals’ lives were…
Genetic analysis shows that reindeer lichens reproduce sexually as opposed to asexually more often than…