The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...

Beat the mid-week blues and come visit SUE— the Field is free on Wednesdays for Illinois Residents!

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It’s the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive today— are dinosaurs. And while the first ...

Come along on a dramatic adventure to Antarctica—one of the most isolated and dangerous environments on Earth—and witness the latest discovery: dinosaurs. Join an international team of scientists on a ...

The Roots & Routes Initiative & Youth Conservation Action lead the Chicago Green Ambassadors Summer Program, a paid internship program to increase the resilience of our neighborhoods and green spaces.

We are open from 9am to 5pm today.

Though SUE the T. rex’s fossils are a snapshot of life 67 million years ago, the science around extinct animals is rarely set in stone. Get an in-depth look at SUE's scientific updates and new home in ...

Tucked within an arresting collection of taxidermied mammals of Africa in the Rice Gallery, the man-eating lions of Tsavo are two of the Field Museum’s most famous residents—and also the most infamous ...

Sons of famous naturalist President Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt inherited their father’s love for nature and conservationist attitude. Over the course of two expeditions through ...

Amniote tetrapods (i.e., those terrestrial vertebrates that produce eggs in which the embryo is surrounded by a series of extra-embryonic membranes) in the modern world can be divided into two great ...